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After the overthrow and assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963, South Vietnam entered a period of intense political instability. A January 1964 coup brought General Nguyen Khanh to power, but the Viet
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Topics: Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnam, Viet Cong, Gulf of Tonkin, South Vietnamese Army (AVRN), President Lyndon Johnson, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, General Nguyen Khanh

The Buddhist Crisis of 1963 was a period of political and religious unrest in South Vietnam that helped bring down President Ngo Dinh Diem’s government. Beginning with protests over religious discrimination and
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Topics: Indochina, Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnam, Viet Cong, Ngo Dinh Nhu, Buddha, Hue, Imperial city, Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, American Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Buddhism, Buddhist Thich Tri Quang, Monk Thich Quang Duc

The Strategic Hamlet Program was a counterinsurgency campaign launched by the South Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem in the early 1960s. The program sought to isolate the Viet Cong from the rural population by
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Topics: Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnam, President John F. Kennedy, Viet Cong, President Lyndon Johnson, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Roger Hilsman, Intelligence Director, Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao,, Strategic Hamlets Program

Kennedy’s Vietnam: The Road to Deeper Involvement By the early 1960s, Vietnam had become far more than a distant corner of Southeast Asia. In Washington, it was increasingly viewed as a crucial front line in the Cold
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Topics: Ngo Dinh Diem, President John F. Kennedy, Viet Cong, South Vietnamese Army (AVRN), Buddhist monks, Operation Beef-Up, Domino Theory, President Lyndon Johnson, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Saigon

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