Historical Figure

Ngo Dinh Diem

President of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963

About Ngo Dinh Diem

Ngô Đình Diệm was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam from 1955 until his capture and assassination during the CIA-backed 1963 coup d'état.Wikipedia ↗

Associated Events

Independence1945 CE – 1975 CE

Vietnamese Independence

Vietnam's three-decade struggle for independence and reunification: first defeating France at Dien Bien Phu (1954), then fighting the US-backed South Vietnam in a devastating war ending with North Vietnamese victory and reunification in 1975.