Survey
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, 2002 From World History in Context During the U.S. War in Vietnam (also known as the Second Indochinese War), in a major move to overthrow the U.S.backed Saigon regime in South Vietnam and establish Communist rule throughout the country, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) leadership established the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NFLSV) on 20 December 1960 in Tay Ninh Province. After six years of trying to unify the country through political means, the Vietnamese Communist Party (Lao Dong Party) had concluded that armed violence was the best way to do so. The NFLSV, usually known as the National Liberation Front (NLF), was typical of most Communistfront organizations. It drew its membership from the South Vietnamese who were antiDiem—or opposed South Vietnam's government—and antiAmerican, including Communists and nonCommunists alike. For example, Nguyen Huu Tho (1910–1994), a supposed nonCommunist, presided over the Communist Party–dominated NLF. The NLF, known as the Viet Cong by its enemies, was perceived by U.S. policymakers as a purely Hanoidirected movement. These policymakers argued that if the flow of supplies and troops to the NLF was halted, the southern revolution would die and the Diem regime would remain safe, justifying American involvement in the conflict. Others argued that the conflict in the south was a locally based insurgency and that the NLF was a southern organization that had risen organically from the people opposed to Diem. Throughout the war the NLF staged assaults through its military arm, the People's Liberation Armed Forces (PLAF), on U.S. and ARVN (Army of the Republic of South Vietnam) forces. The most dramatic of these assaults was the 1968 Tet Offensive. Beginning in 1968, the NFLSV sent representatives to the Paris peace talks, and it played a major role in forming the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG), the governmentinwaiting during the later stages of the war. At the war's end, only a few NFLSV representatives were incorporated into the new national government of South Vietnam. Richard B. Verrone Further Reading Pike, Douglas. (1966) Viet Cong: The Organization and Techniques of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press. Tang Truong Nhu. (1985) A Viet Cong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath. New York: Vintage Books. Thayer, Carlyle A. (1989) War by Other Means: National Liberation and Revolution in VietNam, 1954– 60. Sydney, Australia: Allen and Unwin. Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2002 Charles Scribner's Sons, COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale. Source Citation Verrone, Richard B. "National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam." Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. Ed. Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Vol. 4. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002. 290291. World History in Context. Web. 11 Apr. 2016. URL http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/whic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow? failOverType=&query=&prodId=WHIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&dis play query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disable Highlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=WHIC%3 AUHIC&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CCX3403 702106&source=Bookmark&u=slsa_2014&jsid=0eb00a50df1deefb5012df4b8f87b 454 Gale Document Number: GALE|CX3403702106