Timeline Tuesday 20 December 1960

Events on Tuesday 20 December 1960 1

• 1960 National Liberation Front founded in South Vietnam Communist-led group becomes known as the Viet Cong South Vietnamese communists and other opponents of the Diem government form the National Liberation Front, known to its opponents as the Viet Cong. The organization becomes the main insurgent force fighting the South Vietnamese government and, later, the United States.