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In 1954 France withdrew from French Indochina;
Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam
and South Vietnam were released into independence. South Vietnam consisted of the territory of
French Cochinchina and a large part of French Annam
(to the south of 17 degrees northern latitude). However, France had lost control of
its possessions in Indochina in (1941)
1944. Following the end of Japanese occupation (1945) and of the Nationalist Chinese Military Administration (1946),
the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (covering historic Annam and Tonkin,
claiming, but not controlling Cochinchina) was declared; in 1950
it was recognised by both the USSR and the PR China. The French attempted to restore colonial rule; in 1949 the French installed Bao Dai as the Emperor of the Associated State of Vietnam (including historical Annam, Cochinchina and Tonkin), but left the French remained in control of the armed forces. The monarchy was abolished in 1955, and the Republic of Vietnam declared. The Vietnamese Communists who had fought the French, had achieved military victory at Dien Bien Phu 1954, and at the negotiation table in Paris had "only" been given North Vietnam, longed for the unification of the country under Communist rule. A Communist organization in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, was organized, a guerilla war against the regime in Saigon begun. Meanwhile in the U.S., Anti-Communist sentiment was strong in political circles as well as among voters. In order to check the perceived Domino Theory, the U.S. got involved in the Vietnam War without ever declaring war; it sent "military advisors" who did more than just advise, spent large sums of military aid. The Republic of Vietnam, economically as well as militarily, became more and more dependent on U.S. involvement. In 1968 to 1971 U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War reached a climax; the theatre of war was expanded into North Vietnam, then into Laos and Cambodia. Yet Communist resistance was not broken. In consequence of the U.S.-P.R.C. detente and in the face of growing resistance to U.S. involvement in Vietnam at home, the U.S. withdrew her forces from Vietnam by 1973. In a brief offensive in 1975, Viet Cong forces took Saigon; the Republic of Vietnam ceased to exist, Vietnam was reunified. South Vietnam 1963-1975 South Vietnam 1954-1963 Timelines : Vietnam Historical Atlas : Vietnam Page List of Wars : Vietnam Students' Paper : Son, Bo Kyung, The History of Persecution of the Buddhist Faith (2011) Students' Paper : Kim, Youngmin, The South Vietnamese Economy During the Vietnam War, 1954-1975 |
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| Bibliographies | Online Libraries | Online Journals | General Accounts | Specific Topics | Historical Dictionaries | Others |
| DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SOURCES . . . EXTERNAL FILES |
| Country Profiles |
from Wikipedia (South Vietnam) from CIA World Factbook Country : Vietnam from BBC News (Vietnam) from World Desk Reference (Vietnam) Library of Congress Country Studies : Vietnam Article : Republique du Vietnam, from Wikipedia French edition |
| Links |
Category : South Vietnam, from Wikipedia from Univ. Oregon, Asian Studies |
| Organizations |
Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences Vietnamese Studies Group Vietnam Center and Archive, at TTU Vietnam War Historical Society |
| Timelines |
Timeline Vietnam, 1930-2002, from
BBC News; another one from
Ask Asia (206 BCE - 1073) |
| Accounts of History |
History of Vietnam, from Lonely Planet,
from Asia Tours, 6 chapters;
from World Travel Guide,
from Vietnam, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
from Vietnam Online History of Vietnam, from Vietnam Tourism, 5 chapters, several sub-chapters Article History of Vietnam, from Wikipedia |
| Politics |
Article : Viet Cong, from Wikipedia Robert Toppmiller, The Buddhist Crisis of 1964, Selected Papers in Asian Studies 1996 |
| Military |
See here Vietnam Wars Internet Project, links, documents, images, maps etc. Orders, Decorations and Medals : South Vietnam Vietnam Service 1962-1973, from Naval Historical Center Bernd Greiner, Case Study : The March 1968 Massacre in My Lai 4 and My Khe 4, from Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence |
| Economy & Finances |
A Global History of Currencies :
Vietnam |
| Ethnography |
Languages of Vietnam (103), from Ethnologue Minorities at Risk, scroll down for Vietnam - Chinese, Montagnards List of Ethnic Groups in Vietnam, from Wikipedia |
| Religion |
Chronology of Catholic Dioceses : Vietnam History of Buddhism in Vietnam, by L. Clark, S. Brown Religions in Vietnam, from Vietnamese Culture Catholicism in Vietnam, by Dang Anh Tuan Catholic Church in Socialist Republic of Vietnam, from GCatholic Robert Toppmiller, The Buddhist Crisis of 1964, Selected Papers in Asian Studies 1996 Article : Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City, from Wikipedia |
| Local History |
History of Saigon, from Yahoo Travel;
from HVVT, from
Wikipedia History of Hue, from Wikipedia |
| Institutions |
Vietnam, from Airline History |
| Culture |
| Biographies |
| Others |
| DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SOURCES . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS |
| Historical Data | Lists of Statesmen |
from World Statesmen (B. Cahoon), scroll down;
from Rulers (B. Schemmel), scroll down Photos of Leaders of Vietnam, posted by Vern Weitzel (COOMBS) |
| Lists of Ambassadors |
U.S. Ambassadors to South Vietnam, from NNDB |
| Lists of Bishops |
| Population Figures |
Historical Population Statistics : Vietnam, from Population Statistics at Univ. Utrecht |
| Documents | Historical Newspapers |
| Newsreels, Films |
Indisch Filmarchief - Netherlands Indies Movies Archive British Pathe Wochenschau-Archiv (in German) Archief Beeld en Geluid : Polygoon (in Dutch) |
| Image Databanks |
License Plates : Vietnam, Historical, from Francoplaque |
| Archival Deposits |
National Security Archive, search for Vietnam Search CIA Released Documents for Vietnam |
| Constitutions, Laws |
| Treaties |
| Document Collections |
Indochina - Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, Documents 1950-1964, from
Avalon Project at Yale Law School Documents : Vietnam, from CEAS at UCLA Documents : Vietnam Wars, from Vietnam Wars Internet Project Documents related to the Vietnam War, from Mt. Holyoke (has magazine articles from 1824 onward, documents from 1940 onward) A Selection of Documents in Vietnamese History, translated into English (1945-1992), posted by Vern Weitzel (COOMBS) Land reform failures in Communist North Vietnam 1956 (S. Vietnamese propaganda), IA |
| Historical Maps |
click WHKMLA Historical Atlas, Vietnam Page Map : Indochina, ethnolinguistic groups, 1970, from Perry Castaneda Library, UTexas Maps on Vietnamese History, posted by Vern Weitzel (COOMBS) |
| Parliamentary Debates |
Hansard (British Parliament) |
| Tourist Guides, Travelogues |
| Institutions | Archives |
| Musea |
| Monuments |
| Libraries |
National Library of Vietnam, page in Vietnamese |
| National Symbols | Flags, Coats of Arms |
Flag, from FOTW |
| Coins, Banknotes |
Banknotes of South Vietnam, from World Currency Museum;
of <South Vietnam, from Ron Wise's World Paper Money Coins, from Zeno |
| PRINTED REFERENCE |
| Bibliographies | general |
Search ISBN Database Search RHS Bibliography UK National Archive Online Library Search DBNG for Siak etc. |
| Online Libraries | general |
Internet Archives Gutenberg Library Online e-corpus Gallica |
| Online Journals |
Electronic Journals Online |
| General Accounts |
Nicholas Tarling, The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, 4 vol.s, Cambridge : UP (1992) 1999, KMLA Lib.Sign. 959 T188c Stanley Karnow, Vietnam : a History, Penguin (1985) 1991, KMLA Lib.Sign. 959.704 K18v |
| Specific Periods |
Marvin E. Gettleman (ed.), Vietnam. History, Documents, and Opinions on a Major World Crisis, Greenwich : Fawcett Crest 1965 [G] Allan R. Millett, A Short History of the Vietnam War, Bloomington : Indiana UP 1978 [G] |
| Specific Topics |
Phan Phat Huon, History of the Catholic Church in Vietnam, Vol.1 : 1533-1960, Long Beach :Cuu The Tung Thu 2000 [G] Marvin E. Gettleman (ed.), Vietnam. History, Documjents, and Opinions on a Major World Crisis, Grenwich : Fawcett Crest 1965 [G] |
| Historical Dictionaries |
William J. Duiker, Historical Dictionary of Vietnam, Metuchen NJ : Scarecrow 1989, 269 pp. [G] Spencer C. Tucker, The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, A Political, Social & Military History, Oxford : UP 1998 [G] |
| Historical Atlasses |
Jan M. Pluvier, Historical Atlas of Southeast Asia, Leiden : Brill 1995 [G] |
| Statistical Data |
IHS : B.R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics. Africa, Asia & Oceania 1750-2000, London : Palgrave 2003 [G] Article : South Vietnam, in : The World in Figures 1st ed. 1976 pp.204-205 [G] |
| Yearbook Entries | Britannica Book of the Year |
Vietnam, 1956 pp.733-734, 1957 pp.796-797, 1958 p.737, 1959 p.736, 1960 pp.735-736, 1961 pp.737-738, 1962 pp.726-728, 1963 p.842,
1964 pp.856-857, 1965 pp.857-859, 1966 pp.797-801, 1967 pp.794-798, 1968 pp.798-802, 1969 pp.790-795, 1970 pp.788-793,
1971 pp.771-775, 1972 pp.725-729, 1973 pp.723-728, 1974 pp.720-726, 1975 pp.727-729, 1976 pp.725-728 [G] |
| Statesman's Year-Book |
(South) Vietnam, 1970-1971 pp. 1473-1479, 1975-1976 pp. 1471-1476 [G] |
| Americana Annual |
Vietnam, 1957 pp.827-828, 1961 pp.811-812, 1962 pp.818-820, 1963 pp.727-730, 1964 pp.710-713,
1965 pp.733-736, 1967 pp.734-739, 1968 pp.731-738, 1969 pp.735-742, 1970 pp.736-742, 1971 pp.741-743, 1972 pp.739-741,
1973 pp.737-739, 1974 pp.647-649, 1976 pp.103, 588-591 [G] |
| YB on Int'l Communist Affairs | Republic of Vietnam 1968 pp.663-681, 1973 pp.567-579, 1974 pp.559-574 |
