South Vietnam
Cold War ally
South Vietnam was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, formed after the partition of Vietnam following French colonial rule.
Supported by the United States during the Vietnam War, it fell to communist North Vietnam in 1975, and the two were reunified as Vietnam.
The term now refers to the southern region of unified Vietnam: My grandmother fled South Vietnam before the fall of Saigon.
Former Vietnamese capital
- Fall of Saigon1975 communist takeover event
- Paris Peace Accords1973 Vietnam War settlement
- VietnamizationTransferring military burden locally
- French IndochinaSoutheast Asian colonial territory
partition · Geneva Accords · domino theory · puppet state · anti-communism · Cold War proxy · American intervention · Kennedy
Restoring divided unity
- Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam's southern economic center
- boat peopleRefugees traveling by sea
- reeducation campsFacilities for coerced ideological transformation
- MIAsUnlocated military personnel, abbr.
Little Saigon · refugees · emigration · trauma · remembrance · reconciliation · normalization · war memorials
Vietnamese river's coastal plain
- Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam's southern economic center
- SaigonFormer Vietnamese capital
- Da NangVietnamese coastal metropolis
- Central HighlandsElevated Vietnamese interior region
Of hot, humid regions
- monsoonSeasonal tropical wind pattern
- humidityMoisture in atmosphere
- rainforestWet tropical woodland ecosystem
- jungleDense tropical forest
rice paddy · mangrove · bamboo · typhoon · Mekong River · wet season · dry season · flooding
Coordinated 1968 guerrilla assault
- Ho Chi Minh TrailWartime supply route through jungle
- Viet CongVietnamese communist guerrilla force
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
- napalmFlammable gel for bombs
Agent Orange · pacification · combat · battlefield · draft · Charlie · POW · MIA
Saigon
Former Vietnamese capital
- Fall of Saigon1975 communist takeover event
- Paris Peace Accords1973 Vietnam War settlement
- VietnamizationTransferring military burden locally
French Indochina · partition · Geneva Accords · domino theory · puppet state · anti-communism · Cold War proxy · American intervention · Kennedy · Johnson
reunification
Restoring divided unity
- Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam's southern economic center
- boat peopleRefugees traveling by sea
- reeducation campsFacilities for coerced ideological transformation
MIAs · Little Saigon · refugees · emigration · trauma · remembrance · reconciliation · normalization · war memorials · oral histories
Mekong Delta
Vietnamese river's coastal plain
- Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam's southern economic center
- SaigonFormer Vietnamese capital
- Da NangVietnamese coastal metropolis
tropical
Of hot, humid regions
- monsoonSeasonal tropical wind pattern
- humidityMoisture in atmosphere
- rainforestWet tropical woodland ecosystem
jungle · rice paddy · mangrove · bamboo · typhoon · Mekong River · wet season · dry season · flooding · delta
Tet Offensive
Coordinated 1968 guerrilla assault
- Ho Chi Minh TrailWartime supply route through jungle
- Viet CongVietnamese communist guerrilla force
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
napalm · Agent Orange · pacification · combat · battlefield · draft · Charlie · POW · MIA · body count
- Southeast AsiaThailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Malaysia
- Southern PlacesSouthern California, Southern Europe, Southern Italy, Dixie, Southern Ocean
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- Vietnam WarTet Offensive, My Lai Massacre, Viet Cong, Ho Chi Minh Trail, Saigon
- Cold War NationsUSA, USSR, Soviet Union, East Germany, West Germany
- Former RepublicsRoman Republic, Dutch Republic, Weimar Republic, Soviet Union, USSR
South VietnamNorth Vietnam
Formerly divided nation's communist half
Hanoi · communist bloc · Viet Cong · Ho Chi Minh · People's Republic of China