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NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENTS 1945 – 1949
Government | Date Established | Capital | Cabinet Composition | Title | Incumbent | Party |
State of Vietnam | 10 March 1945 | HUE | Not Available | Prime Minister | Tran Trong Tim | Conservative Nationalist |
[Bao Dai, Emperor, abdicated on 26 August 1945 in favor of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam] |
People's Liberation Committee | 16 August 1945 | Hanoi | 12 Veit Minh (6 ICP) | Not Available | |
2 VN Democratic Party | |||||
[Superceded by Prov Gov't DRV, 2 September 1945] |
Provisional Executive Committee of the Southern Vietnam Republic | 25 August 1945 | Saigon | 6 Viet Minh (4 ICP) | Chairman | Tran Van Giau | ICP |
1 VN Democratic Party | ||||||
2 Non-party | ||||||
1 National Independence Party | ||||||
[Overthrown by French Coup d'etat 23 September 1945 |
Provincial Gov't of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam | 2 Sep 1945 | Hanoi | 9 Viet Minh (6 ICP) | President | Ho Chi Minh | Communist-Viet Minh |
4 VN Democratic Party | Minister of Foreign Affairs | Ho chi Minh | Communist-Viet Minh | |||
1 Catholic | Minister of Interior | Vo nguyen Giap | Communist-Viet Minh | |||
2 Non-Party | Minister of Propaganda | Tran huy Lieu | Communist-Viet Minh | |||
[Superceded by Gov't DRV, 2 March 1946] | Minister of National Defense | Chu van Tan | Viet Minh | |||
Minister of Youth | Duong due Hion | Democrat | ||||
Minister of National Economy | Nguyen manh Ha | Catholic | ||||
Minister of Social Welfare | Nguyen van To | Non-party | ||||
Minister of Justice | Vu trong Khanh | Democrat | ||||
Minister of Health | Pham ngoc Thach | Viet Minh | ||||
Minister of Public Works & Communications | Dao trong Kim | Non-party | ||||
Minister of Labor | Le van Hien | Communist-Viet Minh | ||||
Minister of Finance | Pham van Dong | Communist-Viet Minh | ||||
Minister of National Education | Vu dinh Hoe | Democrat | ||||
Minister without Portfolio | Cu Huy Can | Democrat | ||||
Minister without Portfolio | Nguyen van Xuan | Viet Minh |
Government of South Vietnam | 14 Feb 1946 | Saigon | 4 French | Consultative Council of Cochinchina | ||
8 Vietnamese |
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