National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam |
The National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (Vietnamese Mặt Trận Giải Phóng Miền Nam Việt Nam), also known as the
National Liberation Front (NLF) and as Front National de Liberté (FNL), was the primary rebel
organization fighting the US-backed Republic of Vietnam
during the Vietnam War. The NLF asserted that it was a national front of all
elements opposed to the existing government, whether communist or not. Its military organization was known as the
People's Liberation Armed Forces.
American soldiers and the South Vietnam government typically referred to their guerrilla opponents as Viet Cong.
In 1969, the NLF formed a provisional Republic of South Vietnam which took power briefly after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and before the reunification of the country under the
leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam as
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in
1976.
See also
External links
Further reading
- Frances Fitzgerald. 1972. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. Boston: Little, Brown and
Company. ISBN 0316284238. (See the
description in Chapter 4. 'The National Liberation Front'.)
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