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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. 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing - Wikipedia

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    Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7425-4447-8. Jones, Howard (2003). Death of a Generation: how the assassinations of Diem and JFK prolonged the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505286-2. Karnow, Stanley (1997).

  4. 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 ...

  5. List of district-level subdivisions in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of district-level subdivisions (Vietnamese: đơn vị hành chính cấp huyện) of Vietnam.This level includes: district-level cities (thành phố thuộc Thành phố trực thuộc trung ương, thành phố thuộc Tỉnh), towns (), rural districts and urban districts ().

  6. 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état - Wikipedia

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    Tuyến's group had many officers who were members of the opposition Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng and Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng, [23] who had been discriminated against on issues of promotions, which were preferentially given to members of the regime's Cần Lao Party, a secret Catholic organisation responsible for maintaining Diệm ...

  7. State visit by Ngo Dinh Diem to the United States - Wikipedia

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    America's miracle man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, religion, race, and U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, 1950–1957. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3440-2. Jacobs, Seth (2006). Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

  8. Operation Passage to Freedom - Wikipedia

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    The period was marked by a Central Intelligence Agency-backed propaganda campaign on behalf of South Vietnam's Roman Catholic Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem. The campaign was usually viewed to exhort Catholics to flee "impending religious persecution" under communism, [ 10 ] and around 60% of the north's 1.14 million Catholics immigrated. [ 11 ]

  9. Ngô Quyền district - Wikipedia

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    Ngô Quyền is an urban district (quận) of Hai Phong, the third largest city of Vietnam.It is named after King Ngô Quyền who defeated the Chinese at the famous Battle of Bạch Đằng River north of modern Haiphong and ended 1,000 years of Chinese domination dating back to 111 BC under the Han dynasty.