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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

During the Vietnam War, U.S. Army Special Forces—better known as the Green Berets—formed a close military alliance with the Montagnards, the Indigenous peoples of Vietnam’s Central Highlands. Together, they established
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Topics: Vietnam, Viet Cong, Ho Chi Minh trail, Central Highlands, Buon Enao village, CIDG program, Brigadier General William P. Yarborough, Khe Sanh, Lang Vei battle, Civilian Irregular Defense Group - CIA, Green Berets, Special Forces, Montagnards, Plei Mrong village

Traveling the Ho Chi Minh Trail Few routes in Southeast Asia carry as much history as the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Today, travelers crossing the rugged mountains of central Vietnam and neighboring Laos can follow traces of a
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Topics: Dien Bien Phu, Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh trail, General Vo Nguyen Giap, Laos, Cambodia, Colonel Vo Bam

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