• Thumbnail for Plaek Phibunsongkhram
    Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram (14 July 1897 – 11 June 1964), locally known as Marshal P., and contemporarily known as Phibun in the West, was a...
    59 KB (4,510 words) - 11:08, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ananda Mahidol
    him." After overthrowing Pridi Banomyong in a coup, Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsonggram told US Ambassador Edwin Stanton that he "personally doubted whether...
    36 KB (4,322 words) - 08:09, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thai cultural mandates
    issued between 1939 and 1942 by the government of Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsonggram during his first term as prime minister and military dictator of...
    18 KB (2,059 words) - 10:41, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Traditional Thai clothing
    the chong kraben (โจงกระเบน), a cloth wrap. On 15 January 1941, Plaek Pibulsonggram issued a Thai cultural mandate to modernize and Westernize Thai dress...
    16 KB (1,715 words) - 19:23, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Phayom Chulanont
    of Phraya Sri Sitthi Songkhram, Phayom became an ally of Marshal Plaek Pibulsonggram in his coup against the government of Thawal Thamrong Navaswadhi...
    5 KB (338 words) - 21:40, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Franco-Thai War
    only slightly. Following the Fall of France in 1940, Major-General Plaek Pibulsonggram (popularly known as "Phibun"), the prime minister of Thailand, decided...
    20 KB (2,154 words) - 05:31, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Krissanapoom Pibulsonggram
    Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram. His parents are Pibulporn Pibulsonggram and Jamika Pibulsonggram, and he has a younger brother named Mahidol Pibulsonggram. He...
    21 KB (1,509 words) - 07:48, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nitya Pibulsonggram
    Dartmouth College, Nitya Pibulsonggram was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa society class of 1962. He was the sixth child of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram and...
    4 KB (305 words) - 18:12, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sultan of Terengganu
    In 1943, the Thai government under prime minister Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsonggram took over the administration of Terengganu from the Japanese and...
    8 KB (797 words) - 16:54, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Japanese invasion of Thailand
    part of the process, secret discussions were held with Thai Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram, in which the Japanese military sought free passage through...
    37 KB (4,188 words) - 09:13, 5 November 2024