THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Viet Cong
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NLF
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DRV
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Elections were planned to reunite the country within two years, but Diem, with U.S. approval, never submitted to a vote that he feared losing. Instead, a communist insurgency broke out, pitting the so-called Viet Cong, who were sponsored by North Vietnam, against Diem’s forces.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Vietcong and North Vietnam were supported by the Soviet Union (USSR) and China who supplied money and weapons.
Detailed explanation-3: -Again spurned by the Americans, members of the Viet Minh and their sympathizers, communist and non-communist alike, formed the National Liberation Front (NLF), popularly known as the Viet Cong, to target government officials and directly take on the South Vietnam army in direct combat.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Vietnamese Communists, or Vietcong, were the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and were commanded by the Central Office for South Vietnam, which was located near the Cambodian border. For arms, ammunition and special equipment, the Vietcong depended on the Ho Chi Minh trail.