South Vietnamese

adjective

1. of or relating to the former South Vietnam (now part of Vietnam) or its inhabitants

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of South Vietnam

Example Sentences

By 1964, with U.S. “military advisers” on the ground supporting the South Vietnamese government against the communist insurgents of the North, President Lyndon Johnson and his advisers decided — foolishly, in retrospect — to commit U.S. troops.

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The entire American ground war in the 1960s was fought in “South Vietnam,” and, in the early years, nearly all of those whom the Americans fought against were “South Vietnamese.”

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Instead, the “South Vietnamese” who fought against the Americans were those who joined the NLF.

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As historians, we often use convenient descriptors such as South Vietnam/South Vietnamese and North Vietnam/North Vietnamese as shorthand.

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We hear from South Vietnamese people who left the country and learn about the experiences lived by those who chose to stay after the People’s Army of Vietnam took Saigon.

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