USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Viet Cong (can be abbreviated as VC, sometimes spelled as Vietcong), officially the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, was an armed communist organization in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

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: -Collectively the United States often called them the Viet Cong. It was commonly shortened to VC, which in military alphabet code was spoken as Victor Charlie. It was further shortened to just Charlie. American soldiers called them Charlie, they called themselves liberators.

Detailed explanation-4: -It comes from “Việt Nam Cộng-sản”, which just means “Vietnamese Communists”. This, in turn, was shortened to just Việt Cộng, with the first documented instances of such appearing in various Saigon newspapers in 1956.

Detailed explanation-5: -Duong Van Minh Known popularly as “Big Minh, ” Duong led the South Vietnamese army under prime minister Ngo Dinh Diem. In 1963, he became leader of South Vietnam after a coup in which Diem was murdered.