Vietcong- Marisela LaMadrid

Vietcong 

• Was a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the U.S and the South Vietnam governments during the Vietnam war. 
• The Vietcong was both highlighted and demonized in the American press
• The attitude of most American soldiers toward the Vietcong was a combination of hatred, and fear. 
• The origins of the Vietcong being with the Geneva Accoras of 1954.
• The flag of the Vietcong was adopted in 1960
  
  
  
• It had both guerrilla and regular army units.
• The Vietcong best-known action was the Tet offensive, a massive assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968
• The organization was dissolved in 1976 when North and South Vietnam were officially unified under a communist government