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Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam from 1955 to 1963, wearing a dark double-breasted suit and tie, facing the camera with a neutral expression. Map of Vietnam from 1954 to 1976, showing North Vietnam in the north and South Vietnam in the south, separated by a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel. The map highlights the Ho Chi Minh Trail running from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam, with major cities such as Hanoi in the north and Saigon in the south, as well as neighboring countries and bodies of water.
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U.S. trooops of the 7th. and 9th. divisions wade through marshland during a joint operation on South Vietnam's Mekong Delta, April 1967.
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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Miller Center - A messiah without a message. Oct 10, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC Education - Journeys of Hope from Vietnam: Dinh's story. Aug 07, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 01, 2026
Anniversary information added. Oct 29, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 18, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Ngo Dinh Diem and the Americans. Oct 11, 2024
Add new Web site: Eastern Illinois University - Vietnam?s Changing Historiography: Ngo Dinh Diem and America?s Leadership. Jul 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Digital History - 'Sink or Swim, with Ngo Dinh Diem. Jun 05, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 28, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Edward Miller, Misalliance. Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States and the Fate of South Vietnam, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England 2013, pp. 420 (PDF). Feb 09, 2024
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - The Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem. Jun 01, 2023
Add new Web site: The American Presidency Project - Joint Statement Following Discussions With President Diem of Viet-Nam. Feb 11, 2023
Media added. Jan 07, 2021
Cross-references added. Sep 15, 2017
Add new Web site: United States History for Kids - Ngo Dinh Diem. Feb 14, 2017
Add new Web site: Alpha History - Biography of Ngo Dinh Diem. Feb 14, 2017
Add new Web site: The Cold War Museum - Biography of Ngo Dinh Diem. Aug 09, 2016
Article revised and updated. Oct 30, 2015
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Biography of Ngo Dinh Diem. Apr 17, 2014
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Ngo Dinh Diem. May 28, 2013
Photograph of Ngo Dinh Diem added. Mar 26, 2010
Added new Web site: Board of Regents, University of Wisconsin System - Biography of Ngo Dinh Diem. Jan 09, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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