ANSWER Ho Chi Minh was the president of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War his original name was Nguyen Tat. Diem was the president of South Vietnam. Diem was assassinated Nguyen Van Thien was the president of South Vietnam after him.
well dick burns was the incial leader but he was shot in the head and replaced but peter goesinya.Ho Chi Minh was president of North Vietnam until his death in '69; he was replaced by a committee. South Vietnam was President Diem until '63; Thieu until the end.
Diem was assassinated in '63 (as was Kennedy). Generals took over, until Thieu became pres. in '64.
After a series of South Vietnamese government leadership changes, following the assassination of President Diem, President Nguyen Van Thieu became the leader of South Vietnam.
Thieu was president, until North Vietnam conquered his country (South Vietnam).
Ngo Dinh Diem was the leader of South Vietnam until he was assassinated in November of 1963
After the Geneva Conventions in 1954 Vietnam was split into two, North Vietnam (communists) and South Vietnam (democrats). The leader of the North was Ho Chi Minh. The leader of the South was Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem, who was later elected president of South Vietnam; and overthrown by his own general in a coup d'tat in 1963. Nguyen Van Thieu took over, as leader of South Vietnam, for the remainder of the war.
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North and South Vietnam were reunited as a Communist state.
No more North & South Vietnam; just Vietnam.
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North Vietnam conquered South Vietnam and became one nation. The Republic of South Vietnam no longer exists.