the presidency Vietnam would be completely communism and neighboring Laos and Cambodia would also fall to communism‚ which would then give the Soviet even more puppet states. To avoid this from taking place‚ the U.S. propped up Anti-Communist Ngo Dinh Diem as the president of South Vietnam‚ claiming that he was the more “democratic” option although he was more of a dictator than anything
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policies‚ fighting tactics/strategies and the aid of other countries e.g. America. On 26th October 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem won a referendum which appointed him as the President of South Vietnam (This was a rigged vote) and gave Emperor Bao Dai the boot. Although the country wasn’t really a democracy anymore it was more like an oligarchy that implemented a totalitarian regime. Over the next coming years Diem and his followers built his army up going against the communists in their own country‚ carry out a
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percent of the population was Buddhist‚ the religion was officially discouraged by the dominant French Catholics which included President Ngô Đình Diệm (Jacobs‚ 2010). Forced religious conversions and the torture of Buddhist monks and nuns were a common report in Diệm’s Vietnam. In 1963 tensions between French Catholic Buddhist Vietnamese escalated when Diệm decided to enforce a ban on religious flags to prohibit the display of the Buddhist flag on Buddha’s birthday while allowing the Vatican flag
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Assess the importance of the Geneva peace agreement to developments within North and South Vietnam to 1964. In an effort to resolve several problems in Asia‚ including the war between the French and Vietnamese nationalists in Indochina‚ representatives from the world’s powers meet in Geneva. The conference marked a turning point in the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. Representatives from the United States‚ the Soviet Union‚ the People’s Republic of China‚ France‚ and Great Britain came
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JOHN F. KENNEDY IN VIETNAM There are many critical questions surrounding United States involvement in Vietnam. American entry to Vietnam was a series of many choices made by five successive presidents during these years of 1945-1975. The policies of John F. Kennedy during the years of 1961-1963 were ones of military action‚ diplomacy‚ and liberalism. Each of his decision was on its merits at the time the decision was made. The belief that Vietnam was a test of the Americas ability to defeat communists
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event are; the division of Vietnam‚ 1946 and the first Indo-China war‚ 1946-54. The battle of Dien Bien Phu also had important consequences that affected the lives of the Vietnamese. These are; the Geneva conference‚ 1954 and the appointing of Ngo Dinh Diem as Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam. The first cause of the battle of Dien Bien Phu was the division of Vietnam in 1946. After thousands of years of occupation‚ Vietnam and it’s people had developed a strong sense of nationalism. During
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Tonkin (incident was used by the US; it may or may not have happened)/Resolution • Cold War & economic justifications III. Body a. Problems fighting in the war • Guerilla Warfare • Disillusionment • South Vietnamese Political Corruption o Ngo Dinh Diem • Temporary leader • Unpopular in South Vietnam • US Soldiers and Citizens unsure of mission/anti-war movement/anti-draft • Violence of war exposed to American people IV. Body a. Reasons for US loss • Lower morale • Objectives and materials
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War that can be considered “turning points.” One such event was the Buddhist crisis in 1963. The Buddhist crisis is a sorrowful and disheartening portion of history that could have very well been circumvented. Diem the president of South Vietnam provoked the Buddhist community. Diem operated his civilian and military organizations almost entirely with Catholics. Many had recently migrated south‚ and he saw to it that Catholic villages collected most of the U.S. aid funds (Moss‚ 2010). These
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The Vietnam War -A History project- Nadine Gan‚ Grade 9 Part One. The Overview History ~ French Indochina ~ Vietnamisation ~ Epilogue Vietnam was a part of the French colony‚ Indo-‐China. Then at September 1940‚ the Japanese decided to invade Vietnam to prevent China from sending supplies through French Indo-‐China. Having invaded by
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Zinn covers the Vietnam war and the resistance to it. As the chapter title states‚ Zinn argues that the U.S was fighting a war that they could not win as the Vietnamese people were in favor of the government of Ho Chi Minh and opposed the of Ngo Dinh Diem‚ thus allowing them to keep morale high. Meanwhile‚ the American military’s morale for the war was very low‚ as many soldiers were put off by the atrocities that they were made to take part in‚ such as the My Lai massacre. Zinn also tries to dispel
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