Ngo Dinh Diem

The origins of the Cold War are basically the United Staes against the Soviet Union, capitalism verse communism. The United States and the Soviet Union have ideological differences, they believing in running the government different ways. America believes in a democracy basically a free market government. On the other hand, Russians believe in communism basically a dictatorship. George Kennan is most famously known for the “Long Telegram”, he lives in russia at the time and sends a telegram back…

French administration and wanted independence, initiating the Indochina War. After the Indochina War, Vietnam was divided in two parts: North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh ruled North Vietnam, supported by the communist Soviet Union. Ngo Dinh Diem ruled South Vietnam, it was a military dictatorship and an allied with the United States. The United States supported the South Vietnam supplying them with weapons and political advisory, they despised the communism idea of North Vietnam and…

claimed this incident as a defense against an ambush of thirty Vietnamese troops and Vietcong combatants, the victims were eventually found to be Vietnamese civilians that totaled around 347. Graphic images that circulated of the Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem (early in the war) and the Execution of A Vietcong Prisoner revealed the ruthless brutality of events happening in Southeast Asia. Similar instances of cruelty would occur in nearby Cambodia with the emergence of Pol Pot and the Khmer…

To the question “Did the American Strategy win the Cold War?”, I chose the Vietnam War between 1964 and 1968 as a suitable example of how the American strategy was developed in a real context. In 1950 the NSC-68 exposed the strategic concept used at the beginning of the Cold War by US. This report emerged as a response to the communist threat against the democratic and liberal values of the US , as the individual freedom and capitalism, and at the same time the defence against external threat.…

influences in the North, the south had pretty much been subjected to rule from the Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem. With full support from Eisenhower, Diem went ahead and declared himself the president of Vietnam in 1955. In addition, he organized the Republic of Vietnam as an independent nation. However, the Vietminh had also agreed to a Vietnam-wide election in 1956. Nevertheless, the Vietnamese leader Diem refused to hold the 1956 Vietnam-wide election. With EisenhowerÁ─≥s Domino…

The Vietnam war was between Communist and Capitalist both trying to show whose dominant over Vietnam. The U.S unexpectedly joined the war when it began. The reason why the U.S should have not joined the Vietnam war is because it wasn't their war to begin with, they were making the war worse by killing the innocent Vietnamese in many ways, and the U.S citizens hadn’t agreed to fight for a war with no cause. Therefore, the U.S should have not joined the war. First reason the U.S should have not…

Ngo Dinh Diem was the president of South Vietnam and emphasized on the Confucian values. However, the ARVN generals, backed by the CIA operatives and the U.S. ambassador, overthrew him. Until his death, the United States had acted as the advisor to the South…

as their cloudy morality throughout their intervention. The War of Vietnam can be traced back to the country’s split after their liberation from French colonialism. This occurred at the Geneva Conference of 1954, where South Vietnam fell under Ngo Dinh Diem and North Vietnam fell under Ho Chi Minh. These countries were further split by the ideologies they followed. The North became communistic with its…

The United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War, a controversial, detrimental, and monumental event in American history, left marks on our country that remain to this day. America became involved in the Vietnam War in order to terminate the spread of communism. This involvement led to mission creep, which affected American culture, economy, and policy. The complexity and sacrifice of the conflict evoked strong opinions of opposition, and along with this force, was an equal force that supported…

same level tactics used against the French invaders, guerrilla warfare. Diem in response to these advances called upon the broken army of South Vietnam to start repelling the attacks, labeling its new enemy the Viet Cong. As war raged between the two Vietnams, increased supply lines started to come in from the USSR and China, sending masses of weapons and ammo to the Viet Cong. Losing village after village, city after city, Diem called upon his one ally, The United States. As the United States…