Cộng Hòa Miền Nam Việt Nam Republic of South Vietnam Provisional government ← 1975 – 1976 → Flag Anthem Giải phóng miền Nam (To Liberate the South) Capital Ho Chi Minh City Language(s) Vietnamese Government Socialist republic Chairman of Consultative Council Nguyen Huu Tho Chairman of Consultative Council Huynh Tan Phat Historical era Cold War  - Provisional republic established April 30, 1975  - Disestablished July 2, 1976 Area  - 1973 173,809 km² (67,108 sq mi) Population  - 1973 est. 19,370,000       Density 111.4 /km²  (288.6 /sq mi) Currency Liberation dong

History of Vietnam

Hồng Bàng Dynasty prior to 257 BCE Thục Dynasty 257–207 BCE First Chinese domination 207 BCE – 39 CE • Triệu Dynasty 207–111 BCE Trưng Sisters 40–43 Second Chinese domination 43–544 • Lady Triệu's Rebellion 248 Anterior Lý Dynasty Triệu Việt Vương 544–602 Third Chinese domination 602–905 • Mai Hắc Đế 722 • Phùng Hưng 791–798 Autonomy 905–938 • Khúc Family 906–930 • Dương Đình Nghệ 931–937 • Kiều Công Tiễn 937–938 Ngô Dynasty 939–967 • The 12 Lords Rebellion 966–968 Đinh Dynasty 968–980 Prior Lê Dynasty 980–1009 Lý Dynasty 1009–1225 Trần Dynasty 1225–1400 Hồ Dynasty 1400–1407 Fourth Chinese domination 1407–1427 • Posterior Trần Dynasty 1407–1413 • Lam Sơn Rebellion 1418–1427 Later Lê Dynasty 1428–1788 • Early Lê 1428–1788 • Restored Lê 1533–1788 • Mạc Dynasty 1527–1592 • Trịnh-Nguyễn War 1627–1673 Tây Sơn Dynasty 1778–1802 Nguyễn Dynasty 1802–1945 • Western imperialism 1887–1945 • Empire of Vietnam 1945 Indochina Wars 1945–1975 Partition 1954 • Democratic Republic  of Vietnam 1945–1949 and 1955–1976 • State of Vietnam 1949–1955 • Republic of Vietnam 1955–1975 • Rep. of South Vietnam 1975–1976 Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1976   Related topics Champa Dynasties c. 100–1471 List of Vietnamese monarchs Economic history of Vietnam Prehistoric cultures of Vietnam v • d • e

The Republic of South Vietnam (Vietnamese: Cộng Hòa Miền Nam Việt Nam) was the provisional government of South Vietnam following the final military defeat of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), on April 28, 1975. The Republic of South Vietnam existed for 15 months. On July 2, 1976, the Republic of South Vietnam and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) were officially reunified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Government

The government of the Republic of South Vietnam was the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (Vietnamese: Chính Phủ Cách Mạng Lâm Thời Cộng Hòa Miền Nam Việt Nam), often abbreviated to PRG.

History

The Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (PRG) was an provisional government formed on June 8, 1969 in opposition to the Nguyen Van Thieu government of the Republic of Vietnam.

The PRG was constituted by the National Liberation Front (NLF); the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces; and the People's Revolutionary Party and consequently reflected a number of nationalist, anti-imperialist and communist political viewpoints, including the Vietnam Workers Party. Following the military and political results of the 1968 Tet and related military offensives in the South, in which the NLF suffered serious military losses, the PRG was envisioned as a political counter-force that could influence international public opinion in support of national independence and in opposition to the U.S. and the Republic of Vietnam.^[1]

The declared purpose of the PRG was to provide a formal NLF governmental structure and enhance its claim of representing "the Southern people".^[2] Included in this strategy was the pursuit of a negotiated settlement to the war leading to reunification. It was organized during the initial phase of the U.S. policy of Vietnamization, which was devised by U.S. President Richard Nixon and his national security advisor Henry Kissinger early in their administration and which emulated the jaunissement policy pursued earlier by the French during their colonial rule of Indochina.

During the period 1969-1970, most of the PRG's cabinet ministries operated near the Cambodia border. These areas were targeted by the invasion of Cambodia, in April 1970, attempted by ARVN and US forces. The central bodies of the PRG thus functioned as a government in exile. The PRG maintained diplomatic relations with many so-called 'non-aligned' countries, such as Algeria, as well as with the Soviet Union and with the People's Republic of China.

After the surrender of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the PRG assumed power in the South and subsequently participated in the political reunification of the country.

Personnel

National anthem

The national anthem of the Government was To Liberate the South (Vietnamese: Giải phóng miền Nam). The song was written in 1961 by Luu Huu Phuoc (Vietnamese: Lưu Hữu Phước, 1921-1989) and adopted at that time as the anthem of the National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam.

Notes

Further reading

• Truong Nhu Tang, with David Chanoff, Doan Van Toai. 1985. A Viet Cong Memoir. New York. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
• Truong Nhu Tang, with David Chanoff, Doan Van Toai. 1986. A Viet Cong Memoir. New York. Vintage.

External links

Government

• Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam (1969-1975)

Leaders

• Rulers (Vietnam)
• WORLD STATESMEN, Vietnam (include South Vietnam)

National anthem

• "Ethnic Music" Room (“Words” is Japanese version only.)