Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Dương Văn Minh with General Nguyễn Khánh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.

Vietnam War

War in Southeast Asia from 1955 to 1975

The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist…

Coup d'état

Deposition of a government

A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to power through legal means, tries to stay in power…

Dương Văn Minh

President of South Vietnam in 1975

Dương Văn Minh was a South Vietnamese politician and military officer who was a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and a politician during the presidency of Ngô Đình Diệm. In 1963, he became chief of a military junta after leading a coup in which Diệm…

Nguyễn Khánh

South Vietnamese military supreme ruler (1927–2013)

Nguyễn Khánh was a South Vietnamese military dictator and Army of the Republic of Vietnam general who served in various capacities as head of state and prime minister of South Vietnam while at the head of a military junta from January 1964 until February 1965. He was involved in…

South Vietnam

Country in Southeast Asia (1955–1975)

South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered international recognition in 1949 as the associated State of Vietnam within the French Union, with its capital at Saigon. Since 1950, it was a…

Constitution

Fundamental principles that govern a state

A constitution, or supreme law, is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.

List of diplomatic missions of the United States

The United States has the second largest number of active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, including 272 bilateral posts in 174 countries, as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts. It…