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	The Fall of Saigon
		South Vietnamese hordes then began to flee the countryside, crowding the main roads and the pathways in a mass exodus for the coast, where they ultimately jammed seaports seeking transport to the south.
		South Vietnamese soldiers were leaving the line of battle to find their families and escort them to safety.
		South Vietnamese who were airlifted out were for the most part people whose service to their government or to the United States made them candidates for execution by the Communists.
	www.afa.org /magazine/April2000/0400saigon.asp (4032 words)

	Vietnam War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Vietnam—and allies such as the U.S.—portrayed the conflict as one based in a principled and strategic opposition to communism, to deter its expansion throughout Southeast Asia and elsewhere.
		The North Vietnamese portrayed the conflict as one between an imperialist United States and an indigenous South Vietnamese insurgency that was receiving the noncombat support of North Vietnam and its allies.
		The South Vietnamese government also antagonized many of its citizens with its suppression of political opposition, through such measures as holding large numbers of political prisoners, torturing political opponents, and holding a one-man election for President in 1971.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnam_War (10890 words)

	South Vietnam article - South Vietnam Flag South Vietnam & Nguyen Dynasty Vietnamese Vietnam 1954 - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Cộng Hòa), also known as South Vietnam, was created by the partition of Vietnam in 1954 after the defeat of France at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
		South Vietnam's capital was Saigon and it was ruled by an anti-communist government.
		An individual's views on the matter generally correspond closely to their views on the Vietnam War in general - supporters of the war often believe that South Vietnam was a democracy, and thus worthy of defence, while opponents of the war often believe that South Vietnamese democracy was a sham.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/South_Vietnam (257 words)

	Encyclopedia: South Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN), Vietnamese Viá»t Nam Cá»ng HÃ²a from 1955, was a country that existed from 1954 to 1975 in the territory of Vietnam that lay south of the Demilitarized Zone while North Vietnam was situated to the north of the DMZ.
		The founding of South Vietnam was based on the support of the United States, and the history of the relationship is controversial.
		The dominant political rationale for supporting the South was claimed at the time to have been based in its anti-communist ideology, and a desire to limit the expansion of the North government, which had allied itself with the Soviet Union.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/South-Vietnam (6529 words)

	Vietnamization
		Neither a further expansion of the South Vietnamese armed forced nor the withdrawl of the North Vietnamese Army was envisioned.
		South Vietnamese cross - border operations into Cambodia and Laos in 1971 met stiff opposition, and in early 1972 were countered by the North Vietnamese "Easter" offensive into South Vietnam.
		Their leaving left about 550.000 South Vietnamese regulars and another 525,0000 territorials to face a regular North Vietnamese army that Americans estimated at 500,000 to 600,000 troops, of which about 220,000 were in South Vietnam and the rest close by.
	www.studyworld.com /Vietnamization.htm (3531 words)

	Vietnam War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1955, the South Vietnamese monarchy was abolished and Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem became President of a new South Vietnamese republic.
		The North Vietnamese portrayed the conflict as one between the indigenous South Vietnamese NLF and the United States, with the noncombat support of North Vietnam and its allies.
		The program of covert GVN (South Vietnamese) operations was designed to impose "progressively escalating pressure" upon the North, and initiated on a small and essentially ineffective scale in February 1964, according to standard sources.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/V/Vietnam-War.htm (14498 words)

	South Vietnam -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There is debate about how closely the South Vietnamese government was linked to the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States, which was a strong supporter of South Vietnam.
		South Vietnamese President (additional info and facts about Nguyen Van Thieu) Nguyen Van Thieu requested aid from U.S. President (38th President of the United States; appointed Vice President and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-)) Gerald Ford, but the U.S. Senate would not ratify another involvement in Vietnam.
		South Vietnam's capital was (A city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina) Saigon which was renamed (A city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina) Ho Chi Minh City on May 1, 1975.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/south_vietnam.htm (2592 words)

	Chapter II: Armor in the South Vietnamese Army
		To oversee armor training and the development of armor tactics for the South Vietnamese Army, the Vietnamese Armor Command, which also served as the office of the Chief of Armor, was established on 1 April 1955.
		The existing South Vietnamese armored units were reorganized under U.S. influence as armored cavalry regiments consisting of two reconnaissance squadrons, each equipped with M8 armored cars, M3 half-tracks and M3 scout cars, and one squadron of M24 tanks.
		The South Vietnamese cavalry commander was the political leader of the province, and because his political and military future depended on his keeping casualties in the Civil Guard and armored cavalry to a minimum, he was reluctant to have these forces attack.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/Vietnam/mounted/chapter2.htm (10898 words)

	Armor in the South Vietnamese Army
		To oversee armor training and the development of armor tactics for the South Vietnamese Army, the Vietnamese Armor Command, which also served as the office of the Chief of Armor, was established on 1 April 1955.
		The existing South Vietnamese armored units were reorganized under U.S. influence as armored cavalry regiments consisting of two reconnaissance squadrons, each equipped with M8 armored cars, M3 half-tracks and M3 scout cars, and one squadron of M24 tanks.
		The South Vietnamese cavalry commander was the political leader of the province, and because his political and military future depended on his keeping casualties in the Civil Guard and armored cavalry to a minimum, he was reluctant to have these forces attack.
	vietnamresearch.com /armor/armorsvn.html (10897 words)

	Vietnamese Cuisine
		Vietnamese people say their country resembles two baskets of rice on either end of a carrying pole.
		The Center, where Hue, the ancient capital of the Vietnamese kings is located, features a highly decorative, very spicy cuisine, reflecting the pleasures of the country's royalty and the abundance of spices this region's mountainous terrain affords.
		Vietnamese cooks believe so strongly in the superiority of this method, that they even simmer and stir-fry over this type of flame.
	www.angelfire.com /wi2/mayeshiba/Vietnam.html (2399 words)

	THE SOUTH VIETMAMESE DISABLED VETERANS
		Those South Vietnamese soldiers lost their lives or parts of their bodies in war, not only for Vietnam but also for the security of the Southeast Asian countries.
		Moreover, the sacrifices of the South Vietnamese soldiers also served the interests of the USA as an outpost of the US-led Free World.
		During the last few years, there have been several groups of Vietnamese émigrés in the USA and other Western countries who raised funds within the Vietnamese communities to send help in cash and in kind such as wheelchairs to the South Vietnamese disabled veterans who are leading the life of extreme miseries in Vietnam.
	www.vietquoc.com /dis-vet.htm (994 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 24 \| 1968: South Vietnamese recapture Hue
		The South Vietnamese are celebrating the recapture of the country's third city, Hue, after a battle lasting three weeks.
		When the South Vietnamese troops finally broke through into the citadel, all guns blazing and whooping and yelling with delight, they suddenly realised there was no resistance.
		Although technically the North Vietnamese and Vietcong guerrillas were defeated by the Americans, the impact of the Tet Offensive dealt a hard blow to US morale.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/24/newsid_4249000/4249381.stm (651 words)

	Battlefield:Vietnam \| Timeline
		President Nixon meets with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu on Midway Island in the Pacific, and announces that 25,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn immediately.
		North Vietnamese soldiers push toward the city of Hue, which is defended by a South Vietnamese division and a division of U.S. Marines.
		But the 4,000 South Vietnamese men defending the city, reinforced by elite airborne units, hold their positions and launch furious counterattacks.
	www.pbs.org /battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index3.html (776 words)

	USATODAY.com - Ex-leader of South Vietnam dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		BOSTON (AP) — Former South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who led his nation in the war that shattered Vietnam and severely divided the United States, has died.
		South Vietnam was overrun shortly after his departure.
		What proved most costly, however, was a series of costly military mistakes that left the South Vietnamese army on the run and the fall of South Vietnam imminent.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001/09/30/south-vietnam.htm (700 words)

	STATISTICS OF VIETNAMESE GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER
		Returning now to Table 6.1A and the consolidation of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong war-dead estimates and extrapolations (line 102), this may be checked against those consolidations of the separate war-dead estimates and extrapolations (line 67 and 83) by summing them (line 104).
		In South Vietnam there was the suppression of various sects and their independent armies (line 219), rebellions of minorities (lines 222 to 223), the pre-Vietnam War communist inspired guerrilla war directed by North Vietnam from 1954 through 1959 (lines 227 and 228), and the incursion into Cambodia (line 239).
		Some of these Vietnamese were forced to flee, some fled out of terror and fear for their lives, some fled by virtue of unlivable conditions that the communists had created for them.
	www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/SOD.CHAP6.HTM (5593 words)

	Battlefield:Vietnam \| Timeline
		Vietnamese forces occupy the French command post at Dien Bien Phu and the French commander orders his troops to cease fire.
		A specialized North Vietnamese Army unit, Group 559, is formed to create a supply route from North Vietnam to Vietcong forces in South Vietnam.
		In Operation Chopper, helicopters flown by U.S. Army pilots ferry 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers to sweep a NLF stronghold near Saigon.
	www.pbs.org /battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index.html (539 words)

	Vietnam
		The Vietnamese are descendants of nomadic Mongols from China and migrants from Indonesia.
		Vietnamese troops began limited withdrawals from Laos and Cambodia in 1988, and Vietnam supported the Cambodian peace agreement signed in Oct. 1991.
		In April 1997, a pact was signed with the U.S. concerning repayment of the $146 million wartime debt incurred by the South Vietnamese government, and the following year the nation began a drive to eliminate inefficient bureaucrats and streamline the approval process for direct foreign investment.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108144.html (1264 words)

	Ending the Vietnam War, 1973-1975
		Even though the targets were military, the aim was psychological—to shock the North Vietnamese back to the negotiations in a frame of mind to end the war.
		On December 26, the North Vietnamese signaled their willingness to be agreeable and to meet in early January.
		Nixon also believed that the bombing would remind the South Vietnamese that American air power was the most powerful weapon against the North Vietnamese, and that its continued availability was contingent upon South Vietnamese support of the agreement.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/time/dr/17411.htm (697 words)

	Under South Vietnam Rule
		The Montagnard people were placed under the domination of the South Vietnam government and classified as an ethnic minority in their ancestral lands to be assimilated into the Vietnamese culture sphere.
		The Vietnamese government claimed that rudimentary farming methods used by the Montagnards were an extremely wasteful type of cultivation; even though western scientists concluded that their rotational system of farming was the soundest method of farming the red lateritic clay soils.
		Both the North and South Vietnamese governments had the same goals: to destroy, exterminate, and assimilate the Montagnards and to occupy Montagnard land.
	www.mhro.org /south_vietnamese_rule.html (3735 words)

	WHY WE LOST SOUTH VIETNAM
		Meanwhile in South Vietnam, despite military situation was critical, the RVN government had to maintain a society as normal as possible, providing its citizens with minimum needs for a minimum standards of living.
		The South Vietnamese soldiers had strong willing to fight, were well equipped with modern weapons, but they were defeated largely on the psychological front, the most effective strategy to win an ideological war.
		The South Vietnamese had profound knowledge about such matter but they got inadequate support to fight their enemy on the psywar front.
	www.vietquoc.com /whylost.htm (2699 words)

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		Diem was opposed by virtually all elements of South Vietnamese society - Bao Dai’s followers, the pro-French religious sects, the Buddhists, the remnant nationalist organisations, and, of course, the followers of Ho Chi Minh.
		A Gift of Barbed Wire is a penetrating look at the lives of South Vietnamese officials and their families left behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975.
		Phong, 70, was a South Vietnamese diplomat involved in peace talks from 1968 until the end of the war.
	www.lycos.com /info/south-vietnam--south-vietnamese.html?page=2 (484 words)

	North Vietnam Invades 1975
		A new accord aimed at strengthening the January 27 cease-fire agreement in South Vietnam is signed in Paris by the United States, North Vietnam, South Vietnam and the National Liberation Front.
		Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger testifies to Congress that the U.S. is not living up to its earlier promise to South Vietnam's President Thieu of "severe retaliatory action" in the event North Vietnam violated the Paris peace treaty.
		Cities of Qui Nhon, Tuy Hoa and Nha Trang are abandoned by the South Vietnamese, yielding entire northern half of South Vietnam to the North Vietnamese.
	ichiban1.org /html/history/1975_present_postwar/nvn_invasion_1975.htm (761 words)

	This Day in History 1971: South Vietnamese advance stalls
		In Operation Lam Son 719, the South Vietnamese advance into Laos grinds to a halt.
		It included a limited incursion by South Vietnamese forces into Laos to disrupt the communist supply and infiltration network in Laos along Route 9 adjacent to the two northern provinces of South Vietnam.
		Enemy resistance was initially light as a 12,000-man spearhead of the South Vietnamese army thrust its way across the border into the communists' deepest jungle stronghold, with the town of Tchepone, a major enemy supply center on Route 9 in Laos, as the major objective.
	www.history.com /tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=1686 (259 words)

	The Vietnam War
		To support the South’s government, the United States sent in 2,000 military advisors, a number that grew to 16,300 in 1963.
		His attempt to slow the flow of North Vietnamese soldiers and supplies into South Vietnam by sending American forces to destroy Communist supply bases in Cambodia in 1970 in violation of Cambodian neutrality provoked antiwar protests on the nation’s college campuses.
		In April 1975, South Vietnam surrendered to the North and Vietnam was reunited.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /modules/vietnam/index.cfm (475 words)

	Vietnam: The End, 1975
		Vietnamese assessments of the policy and its effectiveness are presented.
		ducted that hastened the collapse of South Vietnam.
		South, especially during the battles of An Loc and Kontum,
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1985/BTM.htm (2935 words)

	This Day in History 1970: Ky defends South Vietnamese operations in Cambodia
		South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, speaking at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, says Cambodia would be overrun by communist forces "within 24 hours" if South Vietnamese troops currently operating there are withdrawn.
		Ky described the Cambodian operation of the previous spring (the so-called "Cambodian Incursion," in which President Nixon had sent U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers into Cambodia to destroy North Vietnamese base camps) as the "turning point" of the war.
		Ky also reported that his government was concerned that the Nixon administration might be yielding to the "pressure of the antiwar groups" and pulling out the remaining U.S. troops too quickly.
	www.history.com /tdih.do?action=tdihArticleYear&id=1488 (368 words)

	The South Vietnamese Army - The Army of the Republic of Vietnam - ARVN
		The South Vietnamese Army - The Army of the Republic of Vietnam - ARVN
		The military ground forces of the South Vietnamese government (Republic of Vietnam) until its collapse in April 1975.
		ARVN originated in the Vietnamese military units raised by French authorities to defend the Associated State of Vietnam in the early 1950s.
	www.deanza.edu /faculty/swensson/arvn.html (90 words)

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