Đồng Khởi uprising begins in Bến Tre

The Workers’ Party of Vietnam adopted Resolution 15, authorizing a broader combination of political struggle and armed resistance in the South. The decision followed repression of former Viet Minh...

The law established special military tribunals and severe penalties for acts classified as communist subversion. The Diệm government presented it as a security measure; opponents experienced it as...

The North Vietnamese military created Group 559 to develop a supply network through Laos and later Cambodia toward the South. The routes depended on large-scale labor, repair and transport work and...

An attack on a U.S. military advisory compound at Biên Hòa killed Major Dale Buis and Master Sergeant Chester Ovnand, the first U.S. military deaths in Vietnam recorded on the national memorial. Their...

The uprising in a mountainous district involved Kinh and Hre communities resisting government control and coercive practices. It became an early sign of rural revolt in central Vietnam. Accounts of...

A series of rebellions against South Vietnamese state control involved several Indigenous communities in the Central Highlands. Local grievances included land, administration, and coercive policies....

Rebel units seized key sites in Saigon and demanded political change. Diệm negotiated, stalled, and loyal forces ultimately defeated the coup. The episode exposed fractures within the South Vietnamese...

The National Liberation Front (NLF) brought together communist-led and other southern groups opposing the Diệm government. It had substantial local roots and also received direction and support from...

A U.S. aircraft sprayed herbicide near a military target in South Vietnam as part of the defoliation program later widely associated with Agent Orange. The campaign damaged forests and crops and...

National Security Action Memorandum 111 expanded U.S. assistance and advisory activity in South Vietnam. The United States increased its role while Diệm’s state faced armed opposition and deep rural...