Ho Chi Minh was the political leader of the Vietnamese communists. General Vo Nguyen Giap was the military leader.
To counter Vietnamese Communists' use of guerrilla warfare
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Communists were famous for "purging." When the south fell in '75; they thought they were going to be purged by the communists.
The Viet Cong were actually a guerrilla force fighting against the South Vietnamese government and its allies during the Vietnam War. They were a communist insurgency movement with connections to North Vietnam. They were not the army of the South Vietnamese communists, but rather a separate entity that fought alongside the North Vietnamese army.
North Vietnamese communists
They were not communists, but in fact, they were pure awesomeness.
The US was on the SOUTH Vietnamese side. The enemy was the NORTH Vietnamese...two separate countries. The Southerners were non-communist; the Northerners were communists.
South Vietnamese Army personnel were called ARVNs and South Viet civilians were called "Viet Nationals" (short for South Vietnamese citizens).
No, Chiang Kai-Shek was the leader of the anti-communist Kuomintang regime, which ruled China before the Communists took power in 1949 under the leadership of Mao Tse-Sung.The leader of the Vietnamese Communists was Ho Chi Minh.
South Vietnamese cities (NovaNet)
The North Vietnamese Army was a regular army; just the like the US Army. The South Vietnamese communists living in South Vietnam were called the Viet Cong (VC); they were the guerrillas.
Both the Communists (North Vietnam and the South Vietnamese Communists, known as the Viet Cong-VC) and the South Vietnamese governments "DRAFTED" their men. When we entered a village (town) and there were NO military age males around, we knew they were either, deceased, hiding, or serving in the North or South Vietnamese military.