Ngo Dinh Diem

By 1955, South Vietnam were allies with France, the USA, and other western allies. President Eisenhower supported Ngo Dinh Diem completely. The US funded equipment, weapons, and training for southern Vietnamese citizen wanting to fight in the war. The US played a large role in the Vietnam war because of its efforts to fight communism. The Cold War served as a basis for…

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hand, South Vietnam favored a democracy and was led by Ngo Dinh Diem. Consequently, Washington, with the fear of communism following the domino effect intervened in Vietnam’s affair to prevent the influence of communism on countries such as Lao, Cambodia, and more. (Jacobs, 4) After China had fallen under communism, the United States had to ensure that other countries wouldn’t fall under as well. Furthermore, the United States chose to favor Diem not only because of common ideals of…

States. The main purpose of the war was to stop South Vietnam in becoming communists like the ones in the north. During that time there were powerful leaders making the decisions. Some important Vietnam leaders were; Ho Chi Minh,Vo Nguyen Giap, Ngo Dinh Diem. Ho Chi Minh was born in May 19, 1890 his birth name was Nguyen Sinh Cung but was known as Nguyen Tat Thanh. By 1941 he changed his name to Ho Chi Minh that means "He who Enlightens". He founded the Indochina Communist Party. He also formed…

going to the “brink” of war to fix an issue. While they were fighting communism, the U.S. supported the French and Ngo Dinh Diem. First, the French were supported by the United States because the U.S. opposed the Soviets, wanted to stop communism from taking over Vietnam, and stopping communist control in China; the French were capable of helping the U.S. achieve these goals. Second, Diem was supported by the United States by receiving encouragement for him to broaden his government and…

Political Impact John F. Kennedy, who stood tall with Ngo Dinh Diem in defending Vietnam proved to be the first snowball in the great avalanche that was the Vietnam War, Lyndon Johnson had to inherit the decisions of the previous administrations and ideologies when it comes to containing the spread of communism with the ever escalating war in Vietnam and popularity of it rapidly decreasing due to factors like Tet and the unpopular draft Lyndon B. Johnson chose not to accept the Democratic…

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of the U.S, “In a letter to Ngo Dinh Diem – the new Prime Minister of the Bao Dai government on October 23, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower promised American support to his government to ensure a non-communist Vietnam. Following through on that commitment, American aid to South Vietnam began as early as in January, 1955. The Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), Indochina was also re-organized into MAAG, Vietnam to train South Vietnamese army” . Early 1955, Diem had centralized his…

South Vietnam, known as Viet Cong. The United States were allies with South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh was the founder of the Indochina Communist Party and the prime minister and leader of North Vietnam. His Communist party was called the Viet Minh. Ngo Dinh Diem was the first President of South Vietnam. He was not in favor of Communism. The war started on November 1, 1955 and ended on April 30, 1975. Even thought the war officially started in 1955, there were numerous factors that were taking place…

The Vietnam War was a war between South Vietnam, supported by the United States, and North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union, that lasted for eleven years from 1964 to 1975. Before Vietnam was separated into separated two countries in 1954, Vietnam was a colony under the control of the French. Vietnam was controlled respectively by the Chinese, French, Japanese, the French again, and, finally, Ho Chi Minh. Minh was a communist, who led a group of Vietnamese patriots, named Vietminh,…