The Vietcong

• Vietcong


  An organisation set up to oppose the rule of Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam, and eventually became aided and supplied by communist North Vietnam and its leader Ho Chi Minh
• Vietcong


  • Their message of independence from foreign control and ending the concentration of land ownership among rich landlords made it popular with Vietnamese peasant farmers
• Ngo Dinh Diem's Strategic Hamlets policy


  Creating 'safe villages' by destroying peasant villages near areas held by the Vietcong and forcefully relocating the people
• Ngo Dinh Diem's Strategic Hamlets policy

  Made him very unpopular with the ordinary people and may have increased support for the Vietcong
• Ho Chi Minh declared a war to overthrow the South Vietnamese government and unite Vietnam under communist rule with the support of the Vietcong

  1959
• Guerrilla war


  A type of warfare that uses unusual tactics, and in-depth knowledge of local surroundings, to defeat opponents both physically and psychologically
• The Vietcong begin to fight a guerrilla war against the government of South Vietnam
• Use the cues to help you label this picture about the vietcong.

  A) Strategic Hamlets

  B) guerilla

  C) communist