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In the World War II, adopted as the national flag of Đại Nam, [9] assigned as the civil flag. [7] Other influences: c. April 17 – June 12, 1945: The first flag of the Empire of Việt Nam. Or: Yellow field with gold border (2:3). Influences: 12 June – 30 August 1945: Flag of the Empire of Vietnam. Or, the trigram of fire Gules.
The national flag of Vietnam, formally the National Flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Quốc kỳ nước Cộng hoà xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam), [1] [2] locally recognized as the golden-starred red banner (cờ đỏ sao vàng) [a] or the Fatherland flag (cờ Tổ quốc), was designed in 1940 and used during a failed communist uprising against the French ...
The American goal in intervening in South Vietnam before and during the Vietnam War was not to make it a "colony" but completely to help the state here face the threat of the North and maintain an anti-communist capitalist outpost as part of a strategy to contain international communism; [156] the United States did not invade Vietnam as ...
At the onset of World War I, Vietnam, nominally under the Nguyễn dynasty, was under French protectorate and part of French Indochina. While seeking to maximize the use of Indochina's natural resources and manpower to fight the war, France cracked down all Vietnamese patriotic movements. [1] Many Vietnamese fought later in the conflict.
The inventor of the Bellamy salute was James B. Upham, junior partner and editor of The Youth's Companion. [1] Bellamy recalled that Upham, upon reading the pledge, came into the posture of the salute, snapped his heels together, and said, "Now up there is the flag; I come to salute; as I say 'I pledge allegiance to my flag', I stretch out my right hand and keep it raised while I say the ...
The Empire of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Đế quốc Việt Nam; Literary Chinese and Contemporary Japanese: 越南帝國 [a]; Modern Japanese: ベトナム帝国, Betonamu Teikoku) was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan [1] between March 11 and August 25, 1945.
Joseph Francis Ambrose (May 24, 1896 – May 1, 1988) was a World War I veteran from the U.S. state of Illinois who served with Company I, 140th Infantry, 35th Division, A. E. F., from 1917 to 1919, becoming nationally known for his photo at the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., at the age of 86.
Vietnam was partitioned at the 17th parallel in 1954. Bảo Đại (1949–1955). Abdicated as emperor (constitutional monarch) in 1945 following surrender of Imperial Japanese occupying forces at the end of World War II, later serving as head of state to 1955. 1955–1975 Republic of Vietnam (Việt Nam Cộng Hòa).