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Following the partition of Vietnam in 1954 at the end of the First Indochina War, more than one million North Vietnamese migrated to South Vietnam, [38] under the U.S.-led evacuation campaign named Operation Passage to Freedom, [39] with an estimated 60% of the north's one million Catholics fleeing south.
North Vietnam − Democratic Republic of Vietnam — the former communist entity in northern Vietnam. It was a revolutionary movement from 1945 to 1954, and a governing state from 1954 to 1976. A unified North and South Vietnam became the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976.
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On 2 July 1976, North and South Vietnam were merged to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. [154] The war had devastated Vietnam and killed 966,000 to 3.8 million people. [155] [156] [157] A 1974 US Senate subcommittee estimated nearly 1.4 million Vietnamese civilians were killed or wounded between 1965 and 1974—including 415,000 killed.
A highly-effective logistician, [12] he was the principal architect of the Ho Chi Minh trail, the logistical network between North and South Vietnam which is recognised as one of the 20th century's great feats of military engineering. [14] Giáp is often credited with North Vietnam's military victory over the United States and South Vietnam. [1]
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Đồng Sĩ Nguyên, also spelled Đồng Sỹ Nguyên, other name Nguyễn Hữu Vũ [1] (1 March 1923 – 4 April 2019), [2] was a Vietnamese soldier and politician. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam, [3] lieutenant-general of the North Vietnamese Army, and minister of transport of Vietnam.
Operation Passage to Freedom was a term used by the United States Navy to describe the propaganda effort [2] [3] and the assistance in transporting in 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam (the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) to non-communist South Vietnam (the State of ...