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South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; Vietnamese: Việt Nam Cộng hòa; ... was founded in 1954 to provide leadership for this group. [9]
Two years after the withdrawal of the last U.S. forces in 1973, Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, fell to the communists, and the South Vietnamese army surrendered in 1975. In 1976, the government of united Vietnam renamed Saigon as Hồ Chí Minh City in honor of Hồ, who died in 1969.
South Vietnam — a former state which governed southern Vietnam from 1950 to 1975. It received international recognition in 1949 as the "State of Vietnam" (1949–55) and later as the "Republic of Vietnam" (1955–75). Its capital was Saigon. A unified South and North Vietnam became the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976.
North and South Vietnam therefore remained divided until the Vietnam War ended with the Fall of Saigon in 1975. After 1976, the newly reunified Vietnam faced many difficulties including internal repression and isolation from the international community due to the Cold War , Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and an American economic embargo. [ 1 ]
Reunification of North Vietnam and South Vietnam as Socialist Republic of Vietnam 1 January 2014: Current Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Yemen: 22 May 1990: Unification of North Yemen and South Yemen: 1597: Qasimid State/Zaidi Imamate [27] 1 November 1918: North Yemen independence from the Ottoman Empire: 21 September 2014
Office of the President of the Republic of Vietnam in Independence Palace, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). This is a list of leaders of South Vietnam, since the establishment of the Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina in 1946, and the division of Vietnam in 1954 until the fall of the Republic of Vietnam in 1975, and the reunification of Vietnam in 1976.
After the Geneva Conference of 1954, as well as becoming fully independent with its departure from the French Union, the State of Vietnam became territorially confined to those lands of Vietnam south of the 17th parallel, and as such became commonly known as Republic of Vietnam. Communist forces entered Hanoi on 10 October 1954.
Date Previous entity ... first Mongolian state founded 1203. January 14, 1922 ... North Vietnam and Republic of South Vietnam