Army of the Republic of Viet Nam

Examples of Army of the Republic of Viet Nam in the following topics:

• Gradual Withdrawal

  • This policy became the cornerstone of the so-called Nixon Doctrine.
  • Abrams, commander of the American military forces in Vietnam, advocated for smaller-scale operations against the logistics of the PAVN/NLF (People's Army of Vietnam/National Liberation Front), more openness with the media, and more meaningful cooperation with the South Vietnamese forces.
  • Vietnamization of the war, however, created a dilemma for U.S. forces: the strategy required that the U.S. troops fight long enough for the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) to improve enough to hold its own against Communist forces.
  • On September 10, the South Vietnamese flag once again flew over the ruins of the Citadel of Quảng Trị City, but the ARVN offensive ran out of steam, conceding the rest of the occupied territory to the North Vietnamese.
  • Meanwhile, the withdrawal of American troops, who numbered less than 100,000 at the beginning of the year, continued as scheduled.

• Vietnam Becomes Nixon's War

  • Vietnamization of the war, however, created a dilemma for U.S. forces: the strategy required that the U.S. troops fight long enough for the South Vietnamese army, the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN), to improve enough to hold its own against the northern forces.
  • One of Nixon's primary foreign policy goals was to achieve breakthroughs in U.S. relations with both the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union.
  • The tactical goal of this bombing was to destroy what was believed to be the headquarters of the northern Viet Cong army.
  • Taking advantage of the situation, Nixon ordered a military incursion into Cambodia by troops from the U.S. and the southern-based Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) in hopes of destroying PAVN/NLF sanctuaries bordering South Vietnam and buying time for U.S. withdrawal.
  • First, it pushed the PAVN (the North Vietnamese Army) deeper into Cambodia, which destabilized the country.

• A Growing War in Vietnam

  • American advisors came in the late 1950s to help the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) in the South combat communist insurgents from the North under communist leader Ho Chi Minh, known as the Viet Cong.
  • The U.S. framed the war as part of its policy of containment of communism in south Asia; however, the war was met with significant protests at home on American soil.
  • In May of 1961, Kennedy sent 400 United States Army Special Forces personnel to South Vietnam to train South Vietnamese soldiers.
  • The Viet Cong and communist insurgencies in South Vietnam took advantage of this instability and increased their strength.
  • The CIA was less optimistic, however, warning that "the Viet Cong by and large retain de facto control of much of the countryside and have steadily increased the overall intensity of the effort."

• Indochina: The Background to War

  • The Viet Minh took power in Vietnam in the August Revolution (launched by the Viet Minh against French colonial rule on August 14, 1945).
  • The French landed in Hanoi by March 1946 and in November of that year they ousted the Viet Minh from the city. 
  • Control of the north was given to the Viet Minh under Ho Chi Minh, and the south continued under Emperor Bao Dai (former Emperor of Vietnam and at the time the chief of state of the State of Vietnam or South Vietnam).
  • In 1955, with American support, Diem used a referendum to remove the former Emperor and declare himself the president of the Republic of Vietnam.
  • Then the U.S. government gradually began supporting the French in their war effort, primarily through Mutual Defense Assistance Act, as a means of stabilizing the French Fourth Republic in which the French Communist Party was a significant political force.

• Commitment to Vietnam

  • Presidency after the death of John F.
  • The South Vietnamese Army, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), was unable to stop the advances of the Nothern Viet Cong army.
  • The U.S. also financed and supplied the forces of all the American allies in the Vietnam War including Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, the Phillipines, and the Republic of Korea (second only to the Americans in troop strength).
  • With the installation of the Thieu and Ky government (the Second Republic), the U.S. had a pliable, stable, and semi-legitimate government in Saigon with which to establish a relationship.
  • Meanwhile, the Viet Cong's ranks grew from approximately 5,000 in 1959 to 100,000 in 1964.

• Sicily and Italy

  • However, Mussolini was eventually freed and the Italian Social Republic was created (1943-1945).
  • The Allied invasion of mainland Italy occurred on September 3, 1943, by General Harold Alexander's 15th Army Group.
  • Although none of the northern reserves were made available to the German 10th Army , it nevertheless came close to repelling the Salerno landing, due mainly to the cautious command of Lieutenant General Mark Clark, the Fifth Army's commanding general.
  • Besides them, over 150,000 Italian civilians died, as did 15,197 anti-Fascist partisans and 13,021 troops of the Italian Social Republic.
  • The campaign ended when Army Group C surrendered unconditionally to the Allies on May 2, 1945, one week before the formal German Instrument of Surrender.

• The Collapse of Nazi Germany

  • Following the Vistula–Oder Offensive of January–February 1945, the Red Army had temporarily halted on a line 60 km (37 mi) east of Berlin.
  • The first defensive preparations at the outskirts of Berlin were made on March 20, under the newly appointed commander of Army Group Vistula, General Gotthard Heinrici.
  • Before the main battle in Berlin commenced, the Red Army encircled the city after successful battles of the Seelow Heights and Halbe.
  • Within the next few days, the Red Army reached the city center where close-quarters combat raged.
  • The RSI Minister of Defense, Rodolfo Graziani, surrendered what was left of the RSI on May 2, when the German forces in Italy capitulated; this put a definitive end to the Italian Social Republic.

• Theodore Roosevelt and Race

  • Theodore Roosevelt's treatment of the Brownsville Affair, in which 167 African American soldiers were wrongfully discharged from the Army, caused the black community to turn away from the Republic president they had once supported.
  • As a result of an Army Inspector General's investigation, Roosevelt ordered the dishonorable discharge of 167 soldiers, costing them their pensions and barring them from other civil-service jobs.
  • The administration withheld news of the discharge of the soldiers until after the 1906 Congressional elections so the pro-Republican black vote would not be affected.
  • Cohen, whom he named register of the federal land office.
  • Describe the effect of Theodore Roosevelt's treatment of the Brownsville Affair

• Yalta's Legacy

  • At that time, more than 200,000 soldiers of the Polish Armed Forces in the West were serving under the high command of the British Army.
  • Two years later, when Churchill and Stalin formed an alliance against Hitler, the Kresy Poles were released from the Gulags in Siberia, formed the Anders Army and marched to Persia to create the II Corps (Poland) under British high command.
  • After the failure of the amendment, Henry Strauss, 1st Baron Conesford, the Member of Parliament for Norwich, resigned his seat in protest of the British treatment of Poland.
  • Many Polish soldiers refused to return to Poland, because of the Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946), the Trial of the Sixteen, and other executions of pro-Western Poles, particularly the former members of the AK (Armia Krajowa).
  • We'll do it our own way later. " While the Soviet Union had already annexed several occupied countries as (or into) Soviet Socialist Republics, other countries in eastern Europe that it occupied were converted into Soviet-controlled satellite states, such as the People's Republic of Poland, the People's Republic of Hungary, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the People's Republic of Romania, the People's Republic of Albania, and later East Germany from the Soviet zone of German occupation.

• Annexing Texas

  • After a series of skirmishes with Mexico, the Republic of Texas won independence in 1836 and was annexed into the United States in 1845.
  • Santa Anna's perceived cruelty during the battle inspired many Texians—both Texas settlers and adventurers from the United States—to join the Texian Army.
  • Buoyed by a desire for revenge, the Texians defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836, ending the revolution.
  • Sam Houston became the first president of the Republic of Texas, elected on a platform that favored annexation to the United States.
  • Texas had no choice but to organize itself as the independent Lone Star Republic.