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800 killed. 2,416 wounded [2] The Battle of Ban Me Thuot was a decisive battle of the Vietnam War which led to the complete destruction of South Vietnam 's II Corps Tactical Zone. The battle was part of a larger North Vietnamese military operation known as Campaign 275 to capture the Tay Nguyen region, known in the West as the Vietnamese ...
The project of land reform in North Vietnam was a product of the interplay of complex internal and external factors. On 9 March 1945, several years after occupation in Indochina, Japan instigated a military coup, overthrew the Vichy French administration in Indochina and established a puppet indigenous government headed by Tran Trong Kim and Bảo Đại.
The Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League ( Vietnamese: Việt Nam Thanh Niên Cách Mệnh Đồng Chí Hội; chữ Hán: 越南青年革命同志會 ), or Thanh Niên for short, was founded by Nguyen Ai Quoc (best known as Ho Chi Minh) in Guangzhou in the spring of 1925. [ 1] It is considered as the “first truly Marxist organization in ...
t. e. The Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam ( PRG, Vietnamese: Chính phủ Cách mạng Lâm thời Cộng hòa miền Nam Việt Nam ), was formed on June 8, 1969, by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) as an armed underground government opposing the government of South Vietnam (Republic of ...
t. e. The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts ( Vietnamese: huyện ), provincial cities ( thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh ), and district-level towns ( thị xã ). The centrally-controlled municipalities (the other first-level division, in addition to provinces) are subdivided into ...
The town's railway station. Diêu Trì is a town of Tuy Phước District, in Bình Định Province, Vietnam.It had a population of 11,671 in 1999. Diêu Trì is most noted for the Diêu Trì Railway Station on the North–South Railway (Reunification Express) which connects by a branch line to Quy Nhơn Railway Station and the city of Quy Nhơn, population of 250,000 people, ten kilometres ...
Vietnam News Agency ( VNA; Vietnamese: Thông tấn xã Việt Nam ( TTXVN ), French: L’Agence vietnamienne d’information, lit. 'Vietnamese Information Agency' ( AVI )) is the official state-run news agency of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It operates more than 30 foreign bureaux worldwide and maintains 63 bureaux in Vietnam — one ...
Route Coloniale 19 or RC19 was constructed by the French in the early 20th century and was the main road connecting the Central Highlands with the coastal region of Vietnam. The Battle of Mang Yang Pass took place along RC19 between An Khê and Pleiku from 24 to 30 June 1954. In the early 1960s as the Vietnam War began to increase in intensity ...