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In 1959 President Ngo Dinh Diem first declared the academy to be a full four-year, degree-granting, university-level institution. Expansion planning and construction began, but the program floundered because of the conflicting short-term demand for junior officers and lack of a qualified academic faculty.
Da Lat, or Dalat [1] (Vietnamese: Đà Lạt; Vietnamese pronunciation: [ɗâː làːt̚] ⓘ), is the capital of Lâm Đồng Province and the largest city of the Central Highlands region in Vietnam. The city is located 1,500 m (4,900 ft) above sea level on the Langbian Plateau. Da Lat is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Vietnam ...
The Lâm Viên Plateau (also called Đà Lạt Plateau, Lang Biang Plateau) [1] is a plateau in southeastern Vietnam.At its centre is the city of Da Lat.Several mountains in this area rise to over 2,000 m (6,562 ft), the highest being Chư Yang Sin Summit [] (Ede: Čư Yang Sin; Vietnamese: đỉnh núi Chư Yang Sin) at 2,442 m (8,012 ft).
Đắk Lắk, anglicized as Daklak, is a central mountainous province in the Central Highlands region, the Central of Vietnam.It borders Gia Lai to the north, Phú Yên and Khánh Hòa to the east, Lâm Đồng and Đắk Nông to the south, and Mondulkiri of Cambodia to the west.
The St. Nicholas Cathedral (Vietnamese: Nhà thờ Chính tòa Đà Lạt, French: Cathédrale Saint-Nicolas) also called St. Nicholas of Bari Cathedral (Nhà thờ Chính tòa Thánh Nicola Bari) is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Đà Lạt, suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City (alternatively still called Saigon), located in Da Lat, the capital of Lam Dong province ...
Dalat University or the University of Dalat (Vietnamese: Đại học Đà Lạt, French: Université de Dalat; formerly Viện Đại học Đà Lạt) is a university in the city of Đà Lạt, capital of Lâm Đồng Province, Vietnam.
The Battle of Da Lat started on January 31, 1968, as part of the Tet Offensive, a nation-wide campaign by the Viet Cong against the government of South Vietnam to coincide with the Lunar New Year. On the morning of January 31, communist forces attacked the city and took control of the city.
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 ...