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North Vietnam

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North Vietnam
A former country of southeast Asia. It existed from 1954, after the fall of the French at Dien Bien Phu, to 1975, when the South Vietnamese government collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War. It is now part of the country of Vietnam.
North Vietnamese adj. & n.
North Vietnam
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(Placename) a region of N Vietnam, on the Gulf of Tonkin: an independent Communist state from 1954 until 1976. Area: 164 061 sq. km (63 344 sq. miles)
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Noun1.North Vietnam - a former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 (after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu) until 1975 when South Vietnam collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War
Annam, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Viet Nam, Vietnam - a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945
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All had admitted taking part in rallies that peaked last August calling for the return of church property seized -- along with many other buildings and farms -- more than 50 years earlier when communists took power in what was then North Vietnam.
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troops and the unification of South and North Vietnam under communist control, will forever be known for the gross miscalculations made by American leaders in the conduct of that military conflict.
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1975: The Vietnam War ended when the South Vietnam government surrendered to North Vietnam.
ON THIS DAY IN .. by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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