Ngo Dinh Diem

The Vietnam War was between North and South Vietnam, North Vietnam was communist run by leader Ho Chi Minh. South Vietnam was run by anti-communist leader Ngo Dinh Diem. New Zealand was involved in the Vietnam War between 1963 and 1975. There were around 3000 New Zealanders that contributed in the war, as medical aid, combat or volunteers. The key ideas of the Vietnam War for New Zealand are communism, causes, perspectives, effects on military and significance. The Vietnam War started because…

The US started building South Vietnam as an independent state under the dictatorial and corrupt rule of Ngo Dinh Diem. It was universally believed that Ho Chi Minh’s party was certain to win the elections. Diem’s government, on the US advice and support, refused to comply with the decision to hold elections. The US started building the South Vietnamese army to resist the North Vietnamese army and crush the South Vietnamese guerrillas.In spite of US support, Diem’s government was on the verge…

Ever since the United States had the Civil War there has been plenty of events that occurred, that can be described as having a big impact on the identity of the United States. There nothing in this world more important than unity, especially when a time of war and we saw that in the United States during World War I, II and the Cold War. We also saw that the United States had the ability to thrive under pressure during severe time .During, World War I the United States establish themselves as a…

Communist. Shortly after North Vietnam became Communist they invaded South Vietnam to take it over and enforce their choice of government on South Vietnam because they were not Communist. After the attack on South Vietnam, President Eisenhower wrote Ngo Dinh Diem, the President of…

Trying to stem the spread of power of the Communist Ho Chi Minh that we had assisted in gaining control of the region. We were instrumental in the signing of the Geneva Accords, and in the backing of the government of President Diem. After we realized that President Diem was not the right leader to bring peace to the region we stood by as a successful coup took place against his government. This coup led to more destabilization in the area, and allowed the North Vietnamese to conduct direct…

only around 425,000 were registered. This fiddling of elections showed what the Americans’ real priorities were – rather than focusing on installing democracy, they were focusing on not installing communism. In an almost entirely Buddhist country, Diêm was a devout Roman Catholic, one who favoured the rich landowners over the peasants – a mistake that, combined with his ‘re-education’ policies, would prove to lose him a lot of support. The only place that support could go was to the Viêt…

Throughout the history of humanity, there were many wars that rewrote the history books. Wars were fought for many reasons: conflicts, revolution, and coups. Usually, people start a war because of only one reason: to create a better life for themselves. A government wants more lands for their country, more people to work for them, and independence for their themselves. However, not every war is a good war. There are always terrible costs after the war. The Vietnam war was an awful war because…

The Vietnam War began in 1954. However, the reasons for why Vietnam was divided began just after WWII ended in 1945. After Japan withdrew their forces in Vietnam and left, France wanted to regain control of Vietnam as they had control before WWII and before Japan was in Vietnam. Before this, Ho Chi Minh had organized Viet Minh or the League for the Independence of Vietnam. Immediatly after Japan left, Minh invaded northern Vietnam and declared it a Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The main…

However, with the views of the government is vastly different. After Ngo Dinh Diem took over Emperor Dai's place, the war became fiercer. The United States decided to back Diem and South Vietnam while the Soviet Union support the North and Minh's communist views. As the war waged on, young Americans in the U.S. Military were sent half-way across the world in order to fight…

How far was America’s policy towards Vietnam wholly explicable by Cold War logic Table of Contents 1. Background of cold war: 2 2. Events and American policies during war: 2 3. Republic of Vietnam: 3 4. United States involvement in Vietnam: 3 5. Logic Of Cold War: 4 6. U.S. – Vietnam Relations: 4 7. Normalization of U.S. – Vietnam Relations: 4 8. Conclusion: 5 9. References: 6 1. Background of cold war: After World War I America has become in power and gradually…