USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Viet Cong (VC), in full Viet Nam Cong San, English Vietnamese Communists, the guerrilla force that, with the support of the North Vietnamese Army, fought against South Vietnam (late 1950s–1975) and the United States (early 1960s–1973). The name is said to have first been used by South Vietnamese Pres.

Detailed explanation-2: -The official name of the South Vietnamese state was the “Republic of Vietnam” (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Cộng hòa; French: République du Viêt Nam). The North was known as the “Democratic Republic of Vietnam".

Detailed explanation-3: -American soldiers referred to the Viet Cong as Victor Charlie or V-C. “Victor” and “Charlie” are both letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet. “Charlie” referred to communist forces in general, both Viet Cong and North Vietnamese.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1960 the DRV established a military-political front in the south called the National Liberation Front of Southern Vietnam (Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng Miền Nam Việt Nam) or NLF for short. American soldiers commonly referred to the NLF as the Viet Cong (Việt Cộng) or VC for short.

Detailed explanation-5: -Born Nguyen Sinh Cung, and known as “Uncle Ho, ” Ho Chi Minh led the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945-69. Ho had embraced communism while living abroad in England and France from 1915-23; in 1919, he petitioned the powers at the Versailles peace talks for equal rights in Indochina.