In 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made their first bombing raids on North Vietnam. In 1970, Japan put a satellite, ...

Vietnam was a French colony when communist-led rebels defeated French troops at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. At that point, the country was divided between north and south, with communists in ...

Vietnam has approved the construction of a high-speed railway between Hanoi in the north and Ho Chi Minh City in the south. The move would reduce the journey time to just five hours from the ...

The elections were never held and the country remained divided: North Vietnam was a communist republic led by Ho Chi Minh. South Vietnam was a capitalist republic led by Ngo Dinh Diem. The ...

and the narrative of unification of North and South Vietnam in "Mùa Gió Chướng" ("Whirlwind Season") (1978). Allison is a professor of military history at Georgia Southern University.

Unexploded ordnance and buried landmines pose an ongoing and daily threat to the people of Vietnam, particularly in the Demilitarized Zone, the “DMZ,” which once separated North and South Vietnam.

President of North Vietnam from 1954 until his death ... decided to give its support to the non-communist government of South Vietnam, led by Ngo Dinh Diem. If you were going to pick a political ...

In November 1972, when a cease-fire agreement between North and South Vietnam seemed imminent, Israel signed a mutual recognition with South Vietnam and agreed to an immediate exchange of ambassadors.

Fifty years after the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese veterans and their families are still battling political and logistical ...