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  2. Ngo Dinh Diem - Wikipedia

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    Diem asked for help from the army to save him, but he still did not forget to remind about reserving troops to fight against communism. The evening of the coup day, Diệm and his entourage escaped via an underground passage to Ma Tuyen's house then Cha Tam Catholic Church in Cholon to pray, where they actively surrendered and were captured the ...

  3. Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Ngô Đình Cẩn - Wikipedia

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    Remnants of Ngo Dinh Can villa in Ngu Tay, Thuy An, Hue city. Vietnam was in chaos after the Japanese invaded the country during World War II and displaced the French colonial administration. At the end of the war, the Japanese left the country, and France, severely weakened by political turmoil within the Vichy regime , was unable to exert ...

  5. 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt - Wikipedia

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    At one stage, Dong wanted Diem to remain as a "supreme advisory" to a transitional regime made up of military officers and civilians. [23] The plotters unilaterally named Brigadier General Lê Văn Kim, the head of the Vietnamese National Military Academy, the nation's premier officer training school in Da Lat, would be their new prime minister ...

  6. File:Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam.pdf - Wikipedia

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    President Ngo Dinh Diem and family at his home in Hue (Central Viet Nam).jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem on an inspection tour 350 km from Saigon (December, 1956).jpg; Portrait of Ngô Đình Diệm, from the book Ngo Dinh Diem of Viet-Nam.jpg; President Ngo Dinh Diem with the troops who defeated the Binh-Xuyen at Rung-Sat (May, 1955).jpg

  7. 1955 State of Vietnam referendum - Wikipedia

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    [18] [23] [51] Bảo Đại's ballot read "I do not depose Bảo Đại and do not regard Ngo Dinh Diem as the Head of State charged with the commission of setting up a democratic regime." [ 18 ] [ 51 ] The voters would place the red or green ballot into the box, according to their preference, while discarding the other, which meant the voting ...

  8. Ngô Đình Nhu - Wikipedia

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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.

  9. 1958 in the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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    In the cities, Diem's secretive Cần Lao Party had succeeded in infiltrating many organizations and was feared. General Samuel Tankersley Williams , head of the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) for Vietnam, refused to concur with the report stating that he did not have "concern regarding internal security, the economic situation, or ...