1955 in South Vietnam

Events

February

• February 12 - United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the first U.S. advisors to South Vietnam.

  October

• October 26 - Ngô Đình Diệm proclaims Vietnam to be a republic with himself as its President and forms the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.

  November

• November 1 - The Vietnam War begins between the South Vietnam Army and the North Vietnam Army in which the latter is allied with the Viet Cong.