vietnam and why

The United States instead placed its hopes on a “new anti-Communist nationalist alternative” and his name was Ngo Dinh Diem. Diem accep

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At the end of April 1960, eighteen Vietnamese nobles petitioned Diem to liberalize his regime. ” If South Vietnam falls; the rest of the blocks go, too. In the spring of 1961, the magazine press began to revise its picture of Diem’s government (Scheer 66). On April 7, 1965 President Johnson explained the United States role in Vietnam. North Vietnam had deliberately made war on the South, though it had bound itself to refrain from war. The petition said continual arrests had filled prisons to overflowing and asserted that a swollen Government bureaucracy was corrupt and inefficient (Scheer 59). At that point the rebel reappeared, this time in the form of the Viet Cong (Scheer 78). Santa Barbara, CA:

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1970.

We think that our ideas of democracy to be universally applicable. By 1954, the Communists had won, and at Geneva they were able to write a new set of rules. The United States had become an ally of the South at the time when no further war between the two states had been expected (Trager 182). In Vietnam: first the French were dominant, and the Communists out of power were interested in violating the rules that assured French domination.

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