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Topic: Leaders of South Vietnam

	Vietnam War - MSN Encarta
		Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975, involving the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front (NLF) in conflict with United States forces and the South Vietnamese army.
		This government’s repressive policies led to rebellion in the South, and in 1960 the NLF was formed with the aim of overthrowing the government of South Vietnam and reunifying the country.
		When Vietnam was divided in 1954, many Viet Minh who had been born in the southern part of the country returned to their native villages to await the 1956 elections and the reunification of their nation.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552642/Vietnam_War.html (2766 words)

	Leaders of South Vietnam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		2.2 Prime Ministers of the Republic of Vietnam
		The government was merged into the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam.
		South Vietnam (the State of Vietnam and the Republic of Vietnam)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leaders_of_South_Vietnam (202 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news - Vietnam's south takes leadership wheel
		Vietnam attracted a total $6.2 billion in FDI last year, and even before WTO-required opening is on pace to attract more foreign money this year.
		Vietnam's new southern leaders will quickly learn that they are no longer just beholden to the ruling Communist Party, but are accountable to the rules and regulations of the wider world economy through WTO membership.
		And Vietnam's Communist Party has finally acquiesced to what it has always resisted: that the country is in better hands directed from the south rather than the north.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/HF28Ae01.html (1900 words)

	Book Reviews
		South Vietnam and it was unlikely that it would ever be achieved even with aid from the US.
		The South Vietnamese were incapable of defending themselves even with the training and logistical support that the US gave them.
		I felt as if the Vietnam War seemed to be more against the US and what it was trying to dictate, than between North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
	home.snu.edu /~dwilliam/f98/vietnam/Reviews.htm (1563 words)

	America's War in Vietnam: 1954 to 1973
		Our leaders concluded that peoples in backward, less developed countries were not ready for their freedom; they could not be trusted to decide what was in the best interest of their governments and societies.
		By the late 1950s, the top CIA official in South Vietnam, Edward Lansdale, described the emerging government of South Vietnam as "an emerging fascist state." This was supposedly the independent, democratic South Vietnam that Johnson said America was supporting.
		Faced with this growing guerrilla movement in South Vietnam and North Vietnamese support for the Viet Cong, the United States and the CIA stepped up their efforts to crush the Viet Cong and sabotage and harass North Vietnam.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/2010/vietnam.htm (4176 words)

	South Vietnam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Vietnam is the commonly used name for the former Vietnamese state that existed from 1954 to 1976 in the portion of Vietnam that lay south of the 17th parallel.
		The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) attempted a defense and a counterattack.
		Inexplicably, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu ordered a retreat, which exacerbated an already-perilous military situation and undercut the confidence of the ARVN soldiers in their leadership.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Vietnam (3381 words)

	The Pentagon Papers, Chapter 5, "Origins of the Insurgency in South Vietnam, 1954-1960"
		The southerners in the North, and their relatives in the South, formed, with the remnants of the Viet Minh's covert network in South Vietnam, a means through which the DRV might "struggle" toward reunification regardless of Diem's obduracy or U.S. aid for South Vietnam.
		This group of leaders were unique in the communist world for their homogeneity and for their harmony-there has been little evidence of the kind of turbulence which has splintered the leadership of most communist parties.
		The growth of dissatisfaction is inhibited by South Vietnam's continuing high standard of living relative to that of its neighbors, the paternalistic attitude of Diem's government towards the people, and the lack of any feasible alternative to the present regime.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/pentagon/pent11.htm (14058 words)

	'It's Just Wrong What We're Doing'
		Vietnam was a small nation engaged in a civil war that Americans misread as a Chinese incursion on all of Asia, while Iraq has been strangled by one of history's worst totalitarian dictators.
		American military officials in Iraq complained early that their forces were ill-equipped for the complex work of nation-building and policing, but the White House has until very recently refused to discuss using UN peacekeeping forces for such work.
		In it, he suggests repeatedly that his faith in superior military technology and the scientific potential of data processing (he was known to his 1960s critics as "an IBM machine with legs") led him to underestimate the difficulties and complexities of the cultures in which he was fighting.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0125-01.htm (2112 words)

	Whiskey Bar: Learning Curve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There is a final result of Vietnam policy I would cite that holds potential danger for the future of American foreign policy: the rise of a new breed of American ideologues who see Vietnam as the ultimate test of their doctrine.
		On the other hand, South Vietnam was only «free» in theory: there were elections but they were fixed, the media was heavily censored and any dissidence was just as brutally squashed.
		On Robert McNamara, anyone who wasn't an adult during the Vietnam era cannot even imagine the level of hatred we had for that man who was responsible for the needless deaths of so many of our family members and friends.
	billmon.org /archives/000936.html (5883 words)

	American Forum - Intl Conflict/Media, Reading 6F
		Elections were scheduled for 1956 to unify the country, but the new American-backed leaders in South Vietnam refuse to hold them for fear that the communists would win.
		The North Vietnamese and their South Vietnamese allies, the Vietcong, kept pace with the American escalation, and victory over the communists appeared to be elusive.
		Many military leaders concluded that in the future there were two wars that the military needed to win: one against the enemy and one against the press.
	www.globaled.org /curriculum/cm6f.html (1718 words)

	Freedom: A History of US. Printable Page \| PBS
		There was a civil war between the northern and southern parts of Vietnam.
		We backed corrupt leaders in South Vietnam who robbed the treasury and had limited popular support.
		If Vietnam was allowed to become communist, everyone seemed sure that all of southeast Asia would follow.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/historyofus/web15/segment4_p.html (617 words)

	Vietnam War Quiz: South Vietnamese Leaders
		Head of the South Vietnamese government in April 1975.
		Prime minister of South Vietnam from 1965 to 1967.
		He became president of South Vietnam in 1967.
	www.vietnamwar.net /svleaders.htm (107 words)

	Selection from In Retrospect, by Robert McNamara, published in 1995
		By the time the United States finally left South Vietnam in 1973, we had lost over 58,000 men and women; our economy had been damaged by years of heavy and improperly financed war spending; and the political unity of our society had been shattered, not to be restored for decades.
		When the archives of the former Soviet Union, China, and Vietnam are opened to scholars, we will know more about those countries’ intentions, but even without such knowledge we know that the danger of Communist aggression during the four decades of the Cold War was real and substantial.
		Given these facts – and they are facts – I believe we could and should have withdrawn from South Vietnam either in late 1963 amid the turmoil following Diem’s assassination or in late 1964 or early 1965 in the face of increasing political and military weakness in South Vietnam.
	staff.washington.edu /ric1/inretrospect.html (1324 words)

	Amazon.ca: Buddha's Child : My Fight To Save Vietnam: Books: Nguyen Cay Ky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The one man who knew how to defeat the communists in Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s and had the wherewithal to do so was Nguyen Cao Ky, the South Vietnamese Air Force general who was the unelected prime minister of that nation from 1965 to 1967 and vice president from 1967 to 1971.
		But Ky was thwarted by venal, incompetent and corrupt South Vietnamese politicians especially his successor, Nguyen Van Thieu, by the evil, double-dealing Vietnamese communists, and by wishy-washy, ignorant American political and military leaders.
		The American lessons from Vietnam in essence are the old sayings that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink, and that if you want something done right do it yourself.
	www.amazon.ca /Buddhas-Child-Fight-Save-Vietnam/dp/0312281153 (2553 words)

	Leaders and Battles: Tet Offensive,
		The Tet offensive began quietly in mid-January 1968 in the remote northwest corner of South Vietnam.
		The most tenacious combat occurred in Hue, the ancient capital of Vietnam, where the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne Divisions, together with marines and South Vietnamese forces, participated in the only extended urban combat of the war.
		In South Vietnam, as in the United States, its forces were stretched thin.
	www.lbdb.com /TMDisplayBattle.cfm?BID=383 (802 words)

	Vietnam: The End, 1975
		ducted that hastened the collapse of South Vietnam.
		South Vietnam tell little about relative combat power.
		Vietnam War was for the South Vietnamese to win.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1985/BTM.htm (2926 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Vietnam \| The Philippines: Allies During the Vietnam War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos' official request in February 1966 for congressional approval to send a combat engineer battalion to the assistance of South Vietnam could not have shocked the citizens of the Philippines more than if he had turned somersaults in public.
		President Lyndon B. Johnson first publicly appealed for other countries to come to the aid of South Vietnam on April 23, 1964--in what was called the "More Flags" program.
		The public furor over Marcos' proposal may therefore be explained by the parallels some Filipino congressmen, such as Ocampo, saw in the contributions of the South Korean government, which had started out with medical and engineer units and had escalated to a combat division.
	www.historynet.com /vn/bl-philippines-vietnam (1147 words)

	ItsComplex.org
		After the action got under way and unanticipated events forced us off our planned course, we failed to retain popular support in part because we did not explain fully what was happening and why we were doing what we did....
		It took twenty years for Robert McNamara to admit that Vietnam was a series of catastrophic mistakes.
		His belated honesty won him both praise and fury from Vietnam veterans, who welcomed his repentance yet mourned the millions of preventable deaths.
	homepage.mac.com /nicholasbs/itscomplex/essay1.html (1570 words)

	Amazon.com: Buddha's Child: My Fight to Save Vietnam: Books: Nguyen Cao Ky,Marvin Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		Ky said that such corrupt government officials should not be prosecuted and should be allow to keep all the money they have stolen from the people as long as these officials would not take bribes again.
	www.amazon.com /Buddhas-Child-Fight-Save-Vietnam/dp/0312281153 (3003 words)

	Digital History
		Cold War fears of communist domination of Indochina, a mistaken belief that North Vietnam was a pawn of Moscow, overconfidence in the ability of U.S. troops to prevent communist takeover of an ally, anxiety that withdrawal from Vietnam would result in domestic political criticism--all contributed to U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
		Presidents Kennedy and Johnson feared that losing South Vietnam would damage their chances for reelection, weaken support for domestic social programs, and make Democrats vulnerable to the charge of being soft on Communism.
		In a predominantly Buddhist country, the French-speaking Catholic leaders of South Vietnam were generally viewed as representatives of France, the former colonial power.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /database/article_display.cfm?HHID=518 (286 words)

	Did U.S. Lose in Vietnam? - AOL Elections Blog - The Stump (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The constant, mindless pro-war cheerleading produced by the corporate media news stars playing at journalists at Network TV and print media, the self-deluding, ego-driven spewing of the right wing pundits of talk radio and blogs, and the misinformed believers of the Christian fundamentalist right have gone on with the Big Lies too long.
		The first lie is that the U.S. was correct to war against Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
		The premise that the U.S. was doing the right thing in invading Vietnam and that it wasn't defeated has been rebutted by the war's chief architect, corporate genius, defense wiz kid, Robert McNamara.
	www.aolelectionsblog.com /2006/11/18/did-u-s-lose-in-vietnam (1600 words)

	Vietnam War Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Be prepared to explain how Ho differed from the leaders of South Vietnam.
		Ho is a brief biography of North Vietnam's legendary leader during the formative years of the North-South Vietnamese conflict.
		David Halberstam, a journalist who spent several years in Vietnam, presents a sympathetic treatment of this man who was strongly motivated by his determination to create an independent Vietnam.
	www.tarleton.edu /~zelman/5313books.html (545 words)

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