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VIETNAM (Documents 1–411)

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Vietnam, Volume I

332. Memorandum of Discussion at the 287th Meeting of the National Security Council, Washington, June 7, 19561

Washington, June 7, 1956

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/d332

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/pg_696

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/pg_697

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/pg_698

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/pg_699

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/pg_700

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/pg_701

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/pg_702

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/pg_703

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/d254

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/d332#fnref:1.7.4.4.14.152.8.2

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/d332#fnref:1.7.4.4.14.152.18.6

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/d332#fnref:1.7.4.4.14.152.18.12

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/d331fn3

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/d332#fnref:1.7.4.4.14.152.18.16

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/d332#fnref:1.7.4.4.14.152.20.8

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/d332#fnref:1.7.4.4.14.152.22.14

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/d332#fnref:1.7.4.4.14.152.84.5

Thân thế (các)nhân vật

https://www.history-matters.com/archive/vietnam/frus_61-63_4/pdf/FRUS_61-63_v4_Persons.pdf

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v19/persons

Anderson, Dillon,

Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, April 1955–September 1956; thereafter White House Consultant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillon_Anderson

Bowie, Robert R.,

Director of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, to August 1955; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning

https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/12112.htm

Chou En-lai,

Premier of the State Council and Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Enlai

Dulles, Allen W.,

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles

Dulles, John Foster,

Secretary of State

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/dulles-john-foster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Foster_Dulles

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,

President of the United States

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/dwight-d-eisenhower/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/eisenhower-ancestry

Gleason, S. Everett,

Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Council

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/personal-papers/s-everett-gleason-papers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Everett_Gleason

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/28614-document-6-memorandum-nsc-executive-secretary-s-everett-gleason-discussion-387th

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/e649d914-e491-46d6-8901-27db4d315301

 https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/reuyy0-k92to/06.pdf

Gray, Gordon,

Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs July 1955–February 1957; Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization from March 1957

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Gray_(politician)

4th United States National Security Advisor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Advisor_(United_States)

Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Defense_Mobilization

Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_Defense_for_International_Security_Affairs

President of the University of North Carolina System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina

2nd United States Secretary of the Army In office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Army

GRAY, GORDON: Papers, 1946-76

https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/finding-aids/pdf/gray-gordon-papers.pdf

https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/finding-aids/gray-gordon

Ngo Dinh Diem,

President of the Council of Ministers of the State of Vietnam to October 1955; thereafter President and Chief of State of the Republic of Vietnam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem

https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/diem-coup

Radford, Admiral Arthur W.,

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to August 1957

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_W._Radford

Robertson, Reuben B., Jr.,

Deputy Secretary of Defense, August 1955–April 1957

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_B._Robertson_Jr.

Robertson, Walter S.,

Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs

Experiences as Far Eastern Affairs expert in State Department; China with Generals Patrick Hurley and George Marshall, 1945-6; Assistant Secretary of State for Far East, 1953-59; policies in South East Asia; South-East Asia Treaty Organization; Korea; impressions of John Foster Dulles, President Eisenhower, Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, Jawaharlal Nehru, Syngman Rhee

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/20/archives/walter-s-robertson-sr-dead-former-us-aide-on-far-east-assistant.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_S._Robertson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistant_Secretary_of_State_for_East_Asian_and_Pacific_Affairs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Robertson

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/robertson-walter-spencer

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/principalofficers/assistant-secretary-for-east-asian-pacific-affairs

Stassen, Harold E.,

Director of the Foreign Operations Administration and Deputy Representative on the United Nations Disarmament Commission to March 1955; thereafter Special Assistant to the President

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Stassen

https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/harold-edward-stassen/

Director of the United States Foreign Operations Administration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Operations_Administration

Director of the Mutual Security Agency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Security_Agency

3rd President of the University of Pennsylvania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_University_of_Pennsylvania

Chair of the National Governors Association

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Governors_Association

25th Governor of Minnesota

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Minnesota

Williams, Lieutenant General Samuel T.,

USA, Chief, Military Assistance Advisory Group, Indochina, October 1955; Chief, Military Assistance Advisory Group, Vietnam from November 1955

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Tankersley_Williams

https://www.militaryhallofhonor.com/honoree-record.php?id=307418

List of Persons

https://www.history-matters.com/archive/vietnam/frus_61-63_4/pdf/FRUS_61-63_v4_Persons.pdf

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v01/persons

https://images.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/EFacs/1958v16/reference/frus.frus1958v16.i0007.pdf

T T NGÔ ĐÌNH DIỆM Phần 1 (Cuốn DVD đầu tiên về TT Ngô Đình Diệm)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbIRZrcFZ2E

T T NGÔ ĐÌNH DIỆM Phần 2 - (Cuốn DVD đầu tiên về TT Ngô Đình Diệm)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IzazKMcuG0

List of presidents of the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

Eisenhower Administration

https://millercenter.org/president/eisenhower/dwight-d-eisenhower-administration

Lesson in Vietnam from Kissinger to Nixon:… “when we made it “our war” we would not let the South Vietnamese fight it; when it again became “their war”, we would not help them fight it.”

Lesson of Vietnam May 12 1975 by Henry A. Kissinger

https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/exhibits/vietnam/032400091-002.pdf

https://thebattleofkontum.com/extras/kissinger.html

List of Participants in the Geneva Conference on Indochina

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/ch5subch4

The Geneva Conference on Indochina May 8–July 21, 1954

[Page [396]] [Page 397]

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/comp2

Geneva Agreements 20-21 July 1954

https://peacemaker.un.org/sites/peacemaker.un.org/files/KH-LA-VN_540720_GenevaAgreements.pdf

March 10 1956 Election in South Vietnam

Election processes in South Vietnam

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79T00826A000400010040-7.pdf

Vietnam’s Un-held 1956 Reunification Elections

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/020691c4-6762-44f0-903b-390c67a04188/content

PRETENSE TO DEMOCRACY: THE U.S. ROLE IN THE SUBVERSION OF THE VIETNAMESE ELECTION OF 1956

https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2761&context=theses

Van Ban Hiep Dinh Paris 27011973

http://suthat-toiac.blogspot.com/2008/07/hip-nh-paris-2711973-vn-bn.html

Agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Viet-Nam.

Signed at Paris on 27 January 1973

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20935/volume-935-I-13295-English.pdf

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20935/v935.pdf

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NLF=National Liberation Front=Mặt Trận Dân Tộc Giải Phóng,

PRG=Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam = Chính phủ Cách mạng Lâm thời Việt Nam,

DRVN= Democratic Republic of North Vietnam=Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa=cộng sản Bắc Việt.

DRV (also DRVN), Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam

NLF, National Liberation Front, Communist front organization in South Vietnam acting as political government of the insurgency; later renamed Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam

NVA, North Vietnamese Army, term used by the United States for the People’s Army of (North) Vietnam

PAVN, People’s Army of (North) Vietnam

PLAF, People’s Liberation Armed Forces, Communist forces in South Vietnam, synonymous with Viet Cong

PRG, Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam, political wing of the South Vietnamese Communist movement, replaced the National Liberation Front (NLF), but the terms are often used interchangeably

Paris Peace Talks, a loosely defined term that, depending on context, could mean the secret meetings between Henry Kissinger for the United States and Le Duc Tho for the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam or the 174 meetings of the public talks held from 1968 to 1973 between the United States and the Republic of (South) Vietnam on one side and the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam on the other; the latter were also known as Plenary or Avénue Kléber talks

Rue Darthé, 11 Rue Darthé, the address of one of the residences of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam in the Paris suburb of Choisy-le-Roi used as a venue for the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations.

Avenue Kléber (also Ave. Kléber or Kléber), address of the International Conference Center at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, the site of the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks; see also Paris Peace Talks

SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Seven Points, peace plan presented by Kissinger on May 31, 1971, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho; peace plan presented by the NLF Delegation in July 1971 at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks

Nine Points, peace plan presented by Xuan Thuy on June 26, 1971

Ten Points, peace plan presented by NLF delegate Madame Binh on May 8, 1969, at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks; peace plan presented by Le Duc Tho on August 1, 1972, at his meeting with Kissinger; peace plan presented by Kissinger on August 14, 1972, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho

Two-Point Elaboration, elaboration of the Ten Point peace plan presented by the DRV Delegation on February 2, 1972, at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks

Twelve Points, peace plan presented by Kissinger on August 1, 1972, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho

strategic hamlets, a South Vietnamese Government program to counter Viet Cong control in the countryside. The government relocated farmers into fortified hamlets to provide defense, economic aid, and political assistance to residents. The hope was that protection from Viet Cong raids and taxation would bind the rural populace to the government and gain their loyalty. The program started in 1962, but was fatally undermined by over expansion and poor execution. By 1964 it had clearly failed.

GVN, Government of (South) Vietnam

RVN, Republic of (South) Vietnam

RVNAF, Republic of (South) Vietnam Armed Forces

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v42/terms

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Vietnam (Documents 1–383)

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Volume IV, Vietnam, August–December 1963

244. Memorandum From the Director of the Vietnam Working Group (Kattenburg) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Hilsman)1

Washington , October 30, 1963 .

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d244

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_492

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/pg_493

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d244#fnref:1.7.4.6.16.104.8.6

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d177

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d244#fnref:1.7.4.6.16.104.16.4

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d215

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d244#fnref:1.7.4.6.16.104.24.4

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d225

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d244#fnref:1.7.4.6.16.104.24.6

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d229

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v04/d244#fnref:1.7.4.6.16.104.48.4

Thân thế (các) nhân vật

Bui Diem,

Dai Viet oppositionist

Ngo Dinh Diem,

President of the Republic of Vietnam until November 1, 1963

Ngo Dinh Nhu,

brother of President Diem; Presidential Counselor and Head of the Interministerial Committee for Strategic Hamlets until November 1, 1963

Ton That Dinh,

Major General, ARVN, Military Governor of Saigon, August 21-November 1, 1963; thereafter Commander of III Corps, Second Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council, and Minister of Public Security of the Provisional Government

Tran Van Don,

Major General, ARVN, Commander of III Corps until July 1963; thereafter Commander of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam; Acting Chief of the Joint General Staff after August 1963; First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council after November 1, 1963; Minister of National Defense after November 4, 1963

Duong Van (“Big”) Minh,

Major General, (after November 4, 1963, Lieutenant General), ARVN, Military Adviser to President Diem until November 1, 1963; thereafter Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Revolutionary Council; President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Vietnam after November 4, 1963

Duong Van Hieu,

Assistant Director for Special Police of the Republic of Vietnam until November 1, 1963

Ngo Trong Hieu,

Vietnamese Minister of Civic Action until November 1, 1963

Hilsman, Roger, Jr.,

Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research until April 25, 1963; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs

https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hilsman-roger

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Roger_Hilsman

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/hilsman-roger-jr

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/principalofficers/assistant-secretary-intelligence-research

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/principalofficers/assistant-secretary-for-east-asian-pacific-affairs

https://www.geni.com/people/Roger-Hilsman-Jr/6000000025930163540

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hilsman

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/roger-hilsman-foreign-policy-adviser-to-jfk-dies-at-94/2014/03/08/e6d1e66e-a63e-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/11/us/politics/roger-hilsman-adviser-to-kennedy-on-vietnam-dies-at-94.html

Kattenburg, Paul M.,

Deputy Director of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, and Chairman of the Vietnam Interdepartmental Working Group from August 4, 1963

https://archives.library.sc.edu/repositories/6/resources/168

https://www.sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/sc_political_collections/collections/kattenburg_paul_m_1922-2004.php 

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

https://archives.library.sc.edu/subjects/2292

Nguyen Khanh,

Major General, ARVN, Commander of II Corps until November 29 1963; thereafter Commander of IV Corps

Tran Thien Khiem,

General, ARVN, Chief of Staff after November 1, 1963, Military Affairs member, Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council

Le Van Kim,

Brigadier General, (after November 1, 1963, Major General), ARVN, Secretary General and Foreign Affairs member, Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council, after November 1, 1963

Nguyen Ngoc Tho,

Vietnamese Vice President until November 4, 1963; thereafter Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and National Economy of the Provisional Government

Tri Quang,

bonze, Buddhist opposition leader

Le Quang Tung,

Colonel, ARVN, Special Forces Commander until November 1, 1963

JFK and the Diem Coup by John Prados

For more information: John Prados 301/565-0564

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 101

Posted - November 5, 2003

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/clip.wma

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/index.htm

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/index.htm#audio

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn01.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn02.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn03.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn04.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn05.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn06.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn07.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn08.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn09.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn10.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn11.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn12.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn13.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn14.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn15.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn16.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn17.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn18.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/clip.wma

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn19.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn20.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn21.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn22.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn23.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn24.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn25.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn26.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn27.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn28.pdf

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/vn29.pdf

List of presidents of the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

Eisenhower Administration

https://millercenter.org/president/eisenhower/dwight-d-eisenhower-administration

Lesson in Vietnam from Kissinger to Nixon:… “when we made it “our war” we would not let the South Vietnamese fight it; when it again became “their war”, we would not help them fight it.”

Lesson of Vietnam May 12 1975 by Henry A. Kissinger

https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/exhibits/vietnam/032400091-002.pdf

https://thebattleofkontum.com/extras/kissinger.html

List of Participants in the Geneva Conference on Indochina

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/ch5subch4

The Geneva Conference on Indochina May 8–July 21, 1954

[Page [396]] [Page 397]

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v16/comp2

Geneva Agreements 20-21 July 1954

https://peacemaker.un.org/sites/peacemaker.un.org/files/KH-LA-VN_540720_GenevaAgreements.pdf

March 10 1956 Election in South Vietnam

Election processes in South Vietnam

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79T00826A000400010040-7.pdf

Vietnam’s Un-held 1956 Reunification Elections

https://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/020691c4-6762-44f0-903b-390c67a04188/content

Van Ban Hiep Dinh Paris 27011973

http://suthat-toiac.blogspot.com/2008/07/hip-nh-paris-2711973-vn-bn.html

Agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Viet-Nam.

Signed at Paris on 27 January 1973

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20935/volume-935-I-13295-English.pdf

https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20935/v935.pdf

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NLF=National Liberation Front=Mặt Trận Dân Tộc Giải Phóng,

Mặt Trận Dân Tộc Giải Phóng Miền Nam NLF

https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Liberation-Front-political-organization-Vietnam

PRG=Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam = Chính phủ Cách mạng Lâm thời Việt Nam,

DRVN= Democratic Republic of North Vietnam=Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa=cộng sản Bắc Việt.

DRV (also DRVN), Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam

NLF, National Liberation Front, Communist front organization in South Vietnam acting as political government of the insurgency; later renamed Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam

NVA, North Vietnamese Army, term used by the United States for the People’s Army of (North) Vietnam

PAVN, People’s Army of (North) Vietnam

PLAF, People’s Liberation Armed Forces, Communist forces in South Vietnam, synonymous with Viet Cong

PRG, Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam, political wing of the South Vietnamese Communist movement, replaced the National Liberation Front (NLF), but the terms are often used interchangeably

Paris Peace Talks, a loosely defined term that, depending on context, could mean the secret meetings between Henry Kissinger for the United States and Le Duc Tho for the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam or the 174 meetings of the public talks held from 1968 to 1973 between the United States and the Republic of (South) Vietnam on one side and the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam on the other; the latter were also known as Plenary or Avénue Kléber talks

Rue Darthé, 11 Rue Darthé, the address of one of the residences of the Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam in the Paris suburb of Choisy-le-Roi used as a venue for the Kissinger-Le Duc Tho negotiations.

Avenue Kléber (also Ave. Kléber or Kléber), address of the International Conference Center at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, the site of the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks; see also Paris Peace Talks

SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Seven Points, peace plan presented by Kissinger on May 31, 1971, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho; peace plan presented by the NLF Delegation in July 1971 at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks

Nine Points, peace plan presented by Xuan Thuy on June 26, 1971

Ten Points, peace plan presented by NLF delegate Madame Binh on May 8, 1969, at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks; peace plan presented by Le Duc Tho on August 1, 1972, at his meeting with Kissinger; peace plan presented by Kissinger on August 14, 1972, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho

Two-Point Elaboration, elaboration of the Ten Point peace plan presented by the DRV Delegation on February 2, 1972, at the (plenary) Paris Peace Talks

Twelve Points, peace plan presented by Kissinger on August 1, 1972, at his meeting with Le Duc Tho

strategic hamlets, a South Vietnamese Government program to counter Viet Cong control in the countryside. The government relocated farmers into fortified hamlets to provide defense, economic aid, and political assistance to residents. The hope was that protection from Viet Cong raids and taxation would bind the rural populace to the government and gain their loyalty. The program started in 1962, but was fatally undermined by over expansion and poor execution. By 1964 it had clearly failed.

GVN, Government of (South) Vietnam

RVN, Republic of (South) Vietnam

RVNAF, Republic of (South) Vietnam Armed Forces

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v42/terms

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