Republic of South Vietnam

Infobox Former Country
native_name = Cộng Hòa Miền Nam Việt Nam
conventional_long_name = Republic of South Vietnam
common_name = Republic of South Vietnam
continent = moved from Category:Asia to Southeast Asia
region = Southeast Asia
country = Vietnam
era = Cold War
status = Provisional
government_type = Socialist Republic|
event_start = Provisional republic established
year_start = 1975
date_start = April 30
event_end =
year_end = 1976
date_end = July 2|
p1 = South Vietnam
flag_p1 = Flag of South Vietnam.svg
s1 = Socialist Republic of Vietnam
flag_s1 = Flag of Vietnam.svg|

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image_map_caption =
capital = Ho Chi Minh City
national_anthem = Giải phóng miền Nam (To Liberate the South)
common_languages = Vietnamese
religion =
currency = Liberation dong|
leader1 = Nguyen Huu Tho
title_leader = Chairman of Consultative Council
deputy1 = Huynh Tan Phat
title_deputy = Chairman of Consultative Council
stat_area1 = 173809
stat_year1 = 1973
stat_pop1 = 19370000
The Republic of South Vietnam ( _vi. Cộng Hòa Miền Nam Việt Nam) was the provisional government of South Vietnam following the final military defeat of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), on April 28, 1975. The Republic of South Vietnam existed for 15 months. On July 2, 1976, the Republic of South Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) were officially reunified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Government

The government of the Republic of South Vietnam was the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (Vietnamese: "Chính Phủ Cách Mạng Lâm Thời Cộng Hòa Miền Nam Việt Nam"), often abbreviated to PRG.

History

The Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (PRG) was an provisional government formed on June 8, 1969 in opposition to the Nguyen Van Thieu government of the Republic of Vietnam.

The PRG was constituted by the National Liberation Front (NLF); the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces; and the People's Revolutionary Party and consequently reflected a number of nationalist, anti-imperialist and communist political viewpoints, including the Vietnam Workers Party. Following the military and political results of the 1968 Tet and related military offensives in the South, in which the NLF suffered serious military losses, the PRG was envisioned as a political counter-force that could influence international public opinion in support of national independence and in opposition to the U.S. and the Republic of Vietnam. [Truong Nhu Tang. 1986. "A Viet Cong Memoir". Vintage.]

The declared purpose of the PRG was to provide a formal NLF governmental structure and enhance its claim of representing "the Southern people". [Truong Nhu Tang. 1986. "A Viet Cong Memoir". Vintage. p. 146-147.] Included in this strategy was the pursuit of a negotiated settlement to the war leading to reunification. It was organized during the initial phase of the U.S. policy of Vietnamization, which was devised by U.S. President Richard Nixon and his national security advisor Henry Kissinger early in their administration and which emulated the "jaunissement" policy pursued earlier by the French during their colonial rule of Indochina.

During the period 1969-1970, most of the PRG's cabinet ministries operated near the Cambodia border. These areas were targeted by the invasion of Cambodia, in April 1970, attempted by ARVN and US forces. The central bodies of the PRG thus functioned as a government in exile. The PRG maintained diplomatic relations with many so-called 'non-aligned' countries, such as Algeria, as well as with the Soviet Union and with the People's Republic of China.

After the surrender of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the PRG assumed power in the South and subsequently participated in the political reunification of the country.

Personnel

National anthem

The national anthem of the Government was "To Liberate the South" (Vietnamese: "Giải phóng miền Nam"). The song was written in 1961 by Luu Huu Phuoc (Vietnamese: Lưu Hữu Phước, 1921-1989) and adopted at that time as the anthem of the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam.

Notes

Further reading

* Truong Nhu Tang, with David Chanoff, Doan Van Toai. 1985. "A Viet Cong Memoir". New York. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
* Truong Nhu Tang, with David Chanoff, Doan Van Toai. 1986. "A Viet Cong Memoir". New York. Vintage.

External links

Government
* [http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/PRG(1969-1975)TVT.html Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam (1969-1975)]

Leaders
* [http://rulers.org/rulvw.html#vietnam Rulers (Vietnam)]
* [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Vietnam.html WORLD STATESMEN, Vietnam (include South Vietnam)]

National anthem
* [http://homepage3.nifty.com/thuan/music/index-e.html "Ethnic Music" Room] (“Words” is Japanese version only.)