north vietnam unified with the south on october 1972.
north vietnam unified with the south on october 1972.
when did north vietnam unify with the south?
october 1972
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the flag of north vietnam, also known as "red flag with yellow star", was adopted as the national flag of the democratic republic of vietnam (north vietnam) on 30 november 1955. it became the national flag of vietnam following reunification with south vietnam on 2 july 1976.









































section::::history.
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rostow was finally able to persuade johnson in june 1967 to bomb north vietnamese oil shortage facilities and hydroelectric plants, predicating this would cause the collapse of north vietnam's economy and win the war. by contrast, the defense secretary, robert mcnamara, reported to the president in the summer of 1967 that even through american bombers by destroying hydroelectric plants had reduced north vietnam's capacity to generate electricity by 85%, it had failed to impact meaningfully on the war. mcnamara argued to johnson that rostow did not understand the differences between germany, an advanced, industrialized first world nation vs. north vietnam, a backward, rural third nation nation, and that paradoxically that north vietnam's very backwardness was a form of strength. mcnamara noted that even before the american bombing, the total annual hydroelectric production of north vietnam amounted only to a fifth of the annual hydroelectric production produced by the potomatc electric power company's plant in alexandria, virginia. for this reason, mcnamara stated that knocking out north vietnam's hydroelectric plants did not have the same catastrophic effect on the north vietnamese economy that knocking out america's hydroelectric plants would have had on the american economy. likewise, north vietnam imported all of its oil from the soviet union, and the north vietnamese loaded drums of oil from soviet tankers at sea to sampans, which then entered north vietnam via that country's intricate network of rivers and canals. for this reason, the destruction of north vietnam's oil shortage tanks by american bombers in 1967 did not affect north vietnam's capacity to wage war. the north vietnamese developed a system of hiding the oil drums underground all across the country. despite all of the devastation caused by the american bombing between 1965-67 with ports destroyed and oil shortage tanks left burning, north vietnam doubled its imports of soviet oil, reaching an annual total of 1.4 million tons by 1967.
walt whitman rostow