National Social Democratic Front
National Social Democratic Front Mặt trận Quốc gia Dân chủ Xã hội | |
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| Slogan | "Freedom—Democracy—Progress—Prosperity" (Tự do—Dân chủ—Tiến bộ—Phú cường) |
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The National Social Democratic Front (Vietnamese: Mặt trận Quốc gia Dân chủ Xã hội), later named the Social Democratic Alliance (Vietnamese: Liên minh Dân chủ Xã hội), was a South Vietnamese political party which was effectively a federation of different groups, united by their anti-communist stance. Its chairman was Lt. Gen. Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, leader of South Vietnam in 1965–1975.
History
Democratic Progressive Party
The party was founded as the Democratic Progressive Party (Vietnamese: Đảng Dân-chủ Tiến-bộ) or symply Democratic Party (Vietnamese: Đảng Dân-Chủ) by Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in 1967.[5] It was not linked with its North Vietnam namesake, aligned with Viet Minh and Communists. The Democratic Party, expressing farmers, workers and small traders, participated in the
National Revolutionary Movement and the Vanguard Youth, a youth organization that participated to August Revolution in 1945 against French colonial rule.[6]
National Social Democratic Front
As the
guerrilla
.
Social Democratic Alliance
The parties' federation was functional during Nguyễn Văn Thiệu's tenure as president and changed its name to Social Democratic Alliance in 1973. However, with the
takeover of South Vietnam. Since the United States refused another intervention, South Vietnam collapsed after the Fall of Saigon, causing the reunification of Vietnam
under communist rule.
Democratic Alliance for Vietnam
Many members of the Front and South Vietnamese government were executed by the new administration, but others fled from Vietnam. In 1981, many former members of the Front created the Democratic Alliance for Vietnam, a pluralist extra-parliamentary opposition group based in California who want restore freedom and democracy in Vietnam.
Prominent members
- Bùi Diễm
- Đỗ Mậu
- Hồ Ngọc Nhuận
- Hoàng Đức Nhã
- Lê Minh Trí
- Nguyễn Bá Cẩn
- Nguyễn Bá Lương
- Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
- Nguyễn Hữu Có
- Nguyễn Ngọc Huy
- Nguyễn Tôn Hoàn
- Nguyễn Văn Hảo
- Nguyễn Văn Hiếu
- Nguyễn Văn Kiểu
- Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
- Nguyễn Xuân Oánh
- Phan Quang Đán
- Tôn Thất Đính
- Trần Thiện Khiêm
- Trần Văn Đỗ
- Trần Văn Đôn
- Trần Văn Hương
- Trần Văn Lắm
- Trần Văn Tuyên
- Trần Văn Chiêu
- Trần Trung Dung
- Trương Đình Dzu
- Võ Long Triều
- Vương Văn Bắc
- [...]
Electoral history
Presidential elections
| Election | Party candidate | Running mate | Votes | % | Result |
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| 1967 | Nguyễn Văn Thiệu | Nguyễn Cao Kỳ | 1,649,561 | 34.83% | Elected 
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| 1971 | Trần Văn Hương | 5,971,114 | 100% | Elected
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See also
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Notes and references
Notes
- ^ Party-Chief in Vietnamese mean Đảng-trưởng
References
- ^ PRESIDENT THIEU ATTENDS DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONVENTION 1973
- ^ PRESIDENT NGUYEN VAN THIEU ATTENDS REVIEW PARADE 1973
- ^ INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT THIEU'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY 1973
- ^ William J. Duiker. Nationalism and Revolution in Vietnam: The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam. University of British Columbia Press. pp. 89–90.
- ^ "TỔNG THỐNG NGUYỄN VĂN THIỆU : CÔNG VÀ TỘI". Ongvove Wordpress. 1973.
- ^ www.truclamyentu.info/tlls_nguyenduyan/chuyenlaco1.htm
- ^ Nathalie Huynh; Chau Nguyen (2015). New Perceptions of the Vietnam War: Essays on the War, the South Vietnamese Experience, the Diaspora and the Continuing Impact. McFarland. p. 65.
Further reading
Documents
- Bùi Diễm & David Chanoff, In the Jaws of History, Indiana University Press ; Illustrated edition, April 1, 1999
- Saigon, 2016–2022
- Kiều Chinh, Nghệ sĩ lưu vong : Hồi ký, Văn Học Press, Irvine, California, United States, 2021
- David Chanoff and Doan Van Toai (1986) Vietnam: A Portrait of Its People at War, I.B. Tauris Publishers
- Sharon, Ariel and David Chanoff (1989) Warrior : the autobiography of Ariel Sharon; New York : Simon and Schuster
- Good, Kenneth and David Chanoff (1992) Into the heart : one man's pursuit of love and knowledge among the Yanomami, Ulverscroft
- Crowe, William J and David Chanoff (1993) The line of fire : from Washington to the Gulf, the politics and battles of the new military, Simon & Schuster
- Elders, M Joycelyn and David Chanoff (1996) Joycelyn Elders, M.D. : from sharecropper's daughter to surgeon general of the United States of America, Morrow
- White, Augustus A. and David Chanoff (2011) Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care, Harvard University Press
- Zadman, Felix and David Chanoff (1995) Never the last journey: a Fortune 500 founder's life story from Holocaust survivor to victor on Wall Street, Shocken
- Cao Van Vien (1983). The Final Collapse. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History.
- Dong Van Khuyen (1979). The RVNAF. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History.
- Dougan, Clark; Fulghum, David; et al. (1985). The Fall of the South. Boston: Boston Publishing Company. ISBN 0939526166.
- Dougan, Clark; Weiss, Stephen; et al. (1983). Nineteen Sixty-Eight. Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Publishing Company. ISBN 0939526069.
- ISBN 0-525-24210-4.
- Hoang Ngoc Lung (1978). The General Offensives of 1968–69. McLean, Virginia: General Research Corporation.
- Hosmer, Stephen T.; Konrad Kellen; Jenkins, Brian M. (1980). The fall of South Vietnam : statements by Vietnamese military and civilian leaders. New York: Crane, Russak. ISBN 0844813451.
- Isaacs, Arnold R. (1983). Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801830605.
- Jacobs, Seth (2006). Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7425-4447-8.
- Joes, Anthony J. (1990). The War for South Vietnam, 1954–1975. New York: Praeger. ISBN 0275938921.
- Jones, Howard (2003). Death of a Generation: how the assassinations of Diem and JFK prolonged the Vietnam War. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505286-2.
- ISBN 039454367X.
- ISBN 0-670-84218-4.
- ISBN 0-684-81202-9.
- Le Gro; William E. (1981). From Cease-Fire to Capitulation. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History.
- Lipsman, Samuel; Weiss, Stephen (1985). The False Peace: 1972–74. Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Publishing Company. ISBN 0-939526-15-8.
- McAllister, James (November 2004). ""A Fiasco of Noble Proportions": The Johnson Administration and the South Vietnamese Elections of 1967". The Pacific Historical Review. 73 (4). Berkeley, California: University of California Press: 619–651. .
- McAllister, James (2008). "'Only Religions Count in Vietnam': Thich Tri Quang and the Vietnam War". Modern Asian Studies. 42 (4). New York: Cambridge University Press: 751–782. S2CID 145595067.
- Military History Institute of Vietnam (2002). Victory in Vietnam: A History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975. trans. Pribbenow, Merle. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. ISBN 0700611754.
- S2CID 145723264.
- ISBN 0521869110.
- ISBN 0060156406.
- Penniman, Howard R. (1972). Elections in South Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.
- Smedberg, Marco (2008). Vietnamkrigen: 1880–1980. Lund, Scania: Historiska Media. ISBN 978-9185507887.
- Snepp, Frank (1977). Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam. New York: Random House. ISBN 0394407431.
- ISBN 0224028197.
- Willbanks, James H. (2004). Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. ISBN 0-7006-1331-5.
- Zaffiri, Samuel (1994). Westmoreland. New York: William Morrow. ISBN 0688111793.
External links
- (in English) The Constitution of the Republic of Vietnam 1956 (archived from the original on 2009-03-25)
- The Constitution of the Republic of Vietnam 1967
- (in Vietnamese) HIẾN PHÁP VIỆT NAM CỘNG HOÀ 1967
- Timeline of NVA invasion of South Vietnam
- Ông Hoàng Đức Nhã : 45 năm nhìn lại biến cố 30/4 (VOA)
- KIM NHUNG SHOW |
- Chương trình Lịch Sử VNCH qua phỏng vấn đặc biệt Cựu Tổng Trưởng Hoàng Đức Nhã
- Nguyên Tổng trưởng Hoàng Đức Nhã và các tổng trưởng VNCH viếng Việt Museum
