2 Vietnam's and 2 leaders

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When was Diem made leader of South Vietnam?
1954
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What did Diem reject after becoming prime minister?
Geneva Accords, 1956
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What gave the US a chance to intervene under Diem?
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
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What was Diem's relationship with Eisenhower?
Ignored the Eisenhower's administration for land and economic reforms, US considered Diem's regime useless
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What was the result of the election in the South under Diem in 1955?
Diem won 98.2% of the vote, there were 450,000 votes BUT Diem claimed that 650,000 voted for him, he became undisputed leader of South Vietnam
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What did Eisenhower like about the Diem regime?
Diem's ruthlessness at first
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What did the US offer Diem?
Hundreds of millions of dollars, political advice, US aid for the middle class
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What was Diem known as under the Eisenhower administration?
The miracle man of Asia, given after his visit to the US in 1957
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What did the US later think of Diem?
Didn't like him, he was stubborn to US advice, unpopular in the South, favoured Catholics over wealthy and didnt appeal to peasantry, refused to see inequality, committed to land reform programme, disliked by ordinary people
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Who was Ho Chi Minh?
Communist backed leader in the South
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What force did Ho Chi Minh create?
People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)
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How was Ho's regime better than Diem's?
Ho won the hearts and minds in a way that Diem could never, even many Southerners were loyal to Ho
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What were relations like between Diem and Hanoi?
Uneasy (1955-1959), Diem arrested Southern communist activists (10,000-2,000 by 1959)
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When was the communist revolt?
1960
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How did the communist revolt change Ho's political stance?
He gave liberation the same importance as coalition
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What did Ho create?
The Ho Chi Minh Trail
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When was the NLF formed?
1960
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What was the NLF?
Ho's supporters, Diem called them the Viet Cong (VC), wanted national revolution, became known as the PAVN
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What was the impact of the NLF?
Diem relocated peasants to army protected villages, 1960 Vietnamese nationalists wanted reform BUT Diem continued repression
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What did the US want from Diem in response to the NLF?
Political and social reform BUT Diem only reformed militarily, 1961 Diem recieved $7billion from Eisenhower administration, Senator kennedy and some others liked Diem (called him 'our offspring')
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