Nguyen Van Thieu

Nguyen Van Thieu (Nguyễn Văn Thiệu,Chu Nom: 阮文紹), (April 5, 1923 – September 29, 2001) was a former General and President of South Vietnam.

Biography

The son of a small landowner, as a patriotic teenager he joined the Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh to liberate Vietnam under French colonialism. He abandoned them after learning of their true aspirations of ruling Vietnam under a Communist Dictatorship.

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Viet Minh - Ho Chi Minh - Communist - Dictatorship

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In 1949, he was educated at the National Military Academy in the former Imperial Capital Hue. He was commissioned a 2nd. Lieutenant from the first officer candidates' course of the Vietnam National Army which had been created by the Emperor Bao Dai.

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1949 - Hue - Lieutenant - Bao Dai

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Thieu was an Army lieutenant-colonel when the Republic of Vietnam was founded and it recovered full sovereignty after the withdrawal of French forces in 1955, following the 1954 Geneva Agreement.

Related Topics:
Republic of Vietnam - 1955

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