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The Viet Minh's stance in the South became increasingly tenuous by the early-to-mid 1950s, and in 1953 Lê was replaced by his deputy Lê Đức Thọ, and returned to North Vietnam.
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According to Democratic Kampuchea's version of party history, the Viet Minh's failure to negotiate a political role for the KPRP at the 1954 Geneva Conference represented a betrayal of the Cambodian movement, which still controlled large areas of the countryside and which commanded at least 5, 000 armed men.
It's original name has been forgotten but in 1950 it was renamed the Pathet Lao, when it was adopted by Lao forces under Prince Souphanouvong, who joined the Viet Minh's revolt against the colonial French authorities in Indochina during the First Indochina War.
By April, 1953, the Viet Minh's People's Army of Vietnam ( PAVN ) invaded northeastern Laos with 40, 000 troops commanded by General Vo Nguyen Giap ; included was a token force of 2, 000 Pathet Lao led by Souphanouvong.
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Resentment against the French was strong, with Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh movement beginning to become a real problem.
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The Committee of the South, though dominated by members of the Indochinese Communist Party, purported to represent both the Viet Minh and the United National Front, and to be the southern arm of Ho Chi Minh's Hanoi government.
This rebellion against the effects of the famine and the authorities that were seen as responsible for it bolstered the Viet Minh's popularity and they recruited many members during this period.
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Cambodia's chief of state, who has been accused of harboring Communist marauders and otherwise making life miserable for neighboring South Viet Nam and Thailand, insists he would be very unhappy if communism established its power in Southeast Asia.
Gen. Taylor will report to President Kennedy in a few days on the results of his visit to South Viet Nam and, judging from some of his remarks to reporters in the Far East, he is likely to urge a more efficient mobilization of Vietnamese military, economic, political and other resources.
South Viet Nam's rice surplus for next year -- more than 300,000 tons -- may have been destroyed.
South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.
The United States, State Department officials explain, now is mainly interested in setting up an international inspection system which will prevent Laos from being used as a base for Communist attacks on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam.
There was the further complication that the administration had very early concluded that Laos was ill suited to be an ally, unlike its more determined neighbors, Thailand and South Viet Nam.
At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.
* 1970 – Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
By the mid-1960s, parts of Cambodia's eastern provinces were serving as bases for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ( NVA / VC ) forces operating against South Vietnam, and the port of Sihanoukville was being used to supply them.
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A Viet Cong base camp being burned, My Tho, South Vietnam, 1968
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Despite being a superpower and having a superior arsenal of weapons at its disposal, the United States was unable to make substantial gains against North Vietnam's proxy guerilla army in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong.
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* January 30 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins, as Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks across South Vietnam.
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* November 1 – The Vietnam War begins between the South Vietnam Army and the North Vietnam Army in which the latter is allied with the Viet Cong.
At the beginning of 1968, the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong orchestrated a major offensive against South Vietnam: the " Tet Offensive ".
The symbol of the phoenix could be found on Vietnamese Bronze Drums, on traditional customs of Au Viet tribes in North Vietnam and South China ( Yunnan, Guangxi ).
Following the Geneva Accord of 1954, the Viet Minh became the government of North Vietnam, although the Bảo Đại government continued to rule in South Vietnam.
Finally, in January 1959, under pressure from southern Viet Cong cadres who were being successfully targeted by Diệm's secret police, Hanoi's Central Committee issued a secret resolution authorizing the use of armed insurgency in the South with supplies and troops from the North.
After the Viet Minh victory, numerous pro-French Hmong had to fall back to Laos and South Vietnam.
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A photo by Eddie Adams showing the summary execution of a Viet Cong in Saigon on February 1 became a symbol of the brutality of the war.
In March 1954, the Viet Minh, a Communist and nationalist army, defeated French troops and took control of what became North Vietnam.
During the battle, Haig's troops ( of the 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division ( United States )) became pinned down by a Viet Cong force that outnumbered US forces by three to one.
The area became a Viet Minh stronghold, except for the RC4 highway.
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Meeting with Khmers who were fighting with the Viet Minh ( and whom they subsequently judged to be too subservient to the Vietnamese ), they became convinced that only a tightly disciplined party organization and a readiness for armed struggle could achieve revolution.
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After the end of World War II, Ta Thu Thau reconstituted the ' La Lutte ' (' The Struggle ') group and became the foremost leader of Vietnamese Trotskyism, but in the events of the August Revolution of 1945, and under the impact of the re-establishment of French colonial rule and repression from the Communist-led Viet Minh, his political current lost any significant influence.
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However, after it became clear the Viet Cong were not going to counter-attack, they were ordered to withdraw to a position to the west from where the casualties could be evacuated by helicopter.
Although initially believing they had suffered a major defeat, as the scale of the losses suffered by the Viet Cong were revealed it became clear that they had in fact won a significant victory.
Yet with 11 Platoon engaged from its left, front and right, it became clear that the Viet Cong force was stronger than a platoon, and was probably at least company-sized.
The two officers agreed it would be impossible to secure the battlefield or to attempt to locate the missing from 11 Platoon in the darkness, and after it became clear that the Viet Cong were not going to counter-attack, Townsend ordered a withdrawal to a position to the west from way their casualties could be evacuated.
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