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Ngô Đình Nhu listen ⓘ (7 October 1910 – 2 November 1963) baptismal name James, (Vietnamese: Giacôbê) was a Vietnamese archivist and politician. [1] He was the younger brother and State Counsellor of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm.
At the end of his secondary schooling at Lycée Quốc học, the French lycée in Huế, Diem's outstanding examination results elicited the offer of a scholarship to study in Paris. He declined and, in 1918, enrolled at the prestigious School of Public Administration and Law in Hanoi, a French school that prepared young Vietnamese to serve in ...
President Ngo Dinh Diem congratulating General Duong Van Minh who defeated the Binh-Xuyen at Rung-Sat (May, 1955).jpg; Opening of the Agricultural School at Blao, 200 km northeast of (3 January 1956).jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem casting his vote (4 March 1956).jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem talking with U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon during ...
Trần Lệ Xuân (Vietnamese pronunciation: [t͡ɕən˨˩ le˧˨ʔ swən˧˧]; 22 August 1924 [2] – 24 April 2011), more popularly known in English as Madame Nhu, was the de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963.
On 2 November 1963, Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, was arrested and assassinated in a CIA-backed coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh.After nine years of autocratic and nepotistic family rule in the country, discontent with the Diệm regime had been simmering below the surface and culminated with mass Buddhist protests against longstanding religious ...
According to historian Jessica Chapman, it was a choice between "the country's obsolete emperor and its far-from-popular prime minister, Ngo Dinh Diem". [24] In announcing the referendum, Diem portrayed his decision as being motivated by a love of democracy and popular discontent with the rule of Bảo Đại.
Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7425-4447-8. Jones, Howard (2003). Death of a Generation: how the assassinations of Diem and JFK prolonged the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505286-2. Karnow, Stanley (1997).
Phan Bội Châu (Vietnamese: [faːn ɓôjˀ cəw]; 26 December 1867 – 29 October 1940), born Phan Văn San, courtesy name Hải Thụ (later changed to Sào Nam), was a pioneer of 20th century Vietnamese nationalism.