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The occupation in December 1958 by North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao security forces of several villages in Tchepone District near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North Vietnam and South Vietnam was an ominous development. The Laos government immediately protested the flying of the North Vietnamese flag on Laotian territory.
Operation Lam Son 719 or 9th Route – Southern Laos Campaign ( Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Lam Sơn 719 or Chiến dịch đường 9 – Nam Lào) was a limited-objective offensive campaign conducted in the southeastern portion of the Kingdom of Laos. The campaign was carried out by the armed forces of South Vietnam between 8 February and 25 ...
In December 1958, North Vietnamese Army units crossed into Laos and took by force several villages in Xépôn District. As contrasted to their other occupations, in this instance North Vietnam began flying their flag over the territory and officially announced it was part of Vietnam.
The Pathet Lao ( Lao: ປະເທດລາວ, romanized : Pa thēt Lāo, lit. 'Lao Nation' [1] ), officially the Lao People's Liberation Army, was a communist political movement and organization in Laos, formed in the mid-20th century. The group ultimately conquered the entire country of Laos in 1975, after the Laotian Civil War.
Cambodian–Vietnamese War Part of the Third Indochina War, the Cold War in Asia, and the Sino-Soviet split Vietnamese soldiers entering Phnom Penh in January 1979 Date 21 December 1978 – 23 October 1991 (14 years, 5 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) Location Cambodia, Southern Vietnam, eastern Thailand Result Vietnamese victory Khmer Rouge removed from power and collapse of Democratic Kampuchea ...
The official name of the North Vietnamese state was the "Democratic Republic of Vietnam" (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa ). The South was known as the "Republic of Vietnam". Việt Nam ( Vietnamese pronunciation: [vjə̀tnam]) was the name adopted by Emperor Gia Long in 1804. [22] It is a variation of "Nam Việt" ( 南 越 ...
Lao People's Democratic Republic. The flag of Laos ( Lao: ທຸງຊາດລາວ; thungsad Lāo) consists of three horizontal stripes, with the middle stripe in blue being twice the height of the top and bottom red stripes. In the middle is a white disc, the diameter of the disc is 4⁄5 the height of the blue stripe. The flag ratio is 2:3.
The Kingdom of Laos was the form of government in Laos from 1947 to 1975. Located in Southeast Asia at the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula, it was bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, North Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest. The country was governed as a constitutional monarchy ...