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1956 also saw the term Viet Cong come in being. The government controlled Saigon press first starting using the term this year referring to communist as Viet Cong a shorting of Viet Nam Cong-San which means "Vietnamese Communist."

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  • 1956 in the Vietnam War
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  • 1956 also saw the term Viet Cong come in being. The government controlled Saigon press first starting using the term this year referring to communist as Viet Cong a shorting of Viet Nam Cong-San which means "Vietnamese Communist."
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  • Viet Minh: 4,300
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  • Ba Cut in Can Tho Military Court 1956
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  • US casualties: 1
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  • dbkwik:resource/F4lA7k2Ecege0KQLVJaJ5Q==
  • United States
  • Viet Minh cadresref|Thousands of Viet Minh cadres had stayed behind after the Vietnam was split into North and South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese government still held out that a referendum on unification as per the Geneva Accords would go ahead. As such they forbid the southern Viet Minh cadres from anything but low level insurgency actions instead issuing directives to focus on political agitation in preparation for the upcoming elections.|group="A"
  • Anti-government insurgents:
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  • Vietnam War
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  • 1956(xsd:integer)
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  • 1956 also saw the term Viet Cong come in being. The government controlled Saigon press first starting using the term this year referring to communist as Viet Cong a shorting of Viet Nam Cong-San which means "Vietnamese Communist."
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