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The Geneva Accords in 1954 partitioned the country temporarily in two with a promise of democratic elections in 1956 to reunite the country. The United States and South Vietnam insisted on United Nations supervision of any election to prevent fraud, which the Soviet Union and North Vietnam refused.
On 12 May, the State of Vietnam rejected any partition of the country, and the U.S. expressed a similar position the next day. The French sought to implement a physical separation of the opposing forces into enclaves throughout the country, known as the "leopard-skin" approach.
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- Partition of Vietnam Into North and South
- Aftermath of The Geneva Conference
- South Vietnam After Partition in 1954
- United States Helps Set Up South Vietnam
- Ngo Dinh Diem Takes Control in The South and Planned 1956 Elections Don’T Happen
- Binh Xuyen When Ngo Dinh Diem Take Power
- Ngo Dinh Diem Defeats Binh Xuyen
- Ngo Dinh Diem’s Anti-Communist Campaign in South Vietnam
- Assassination of Vietnam's JFK
The day after the surrender at Dien Bien Phu, peace talks on Vietnam were taken up at the Geneva Conference, which had begin on April 26 and attended by U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and representatives from eight states: The Democratic Republic of Vietnam, France, the Soviet Union, Britain, the People's Republic of China, the United S...
Vietnam was divided with a "military demarcation line" at the 17th parallel at the Ben Hai River into north and south. The division was a face-saving measure for the French to stave off total defeat by the Viet Minh. The 17th parallel later became the center of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), an area five kilometers on either side of the demarcation ...
The Geneva Agreements were viewed with doubt and dissatisfaction on all sides. Concern over possible United States intervention, should the Geneva talks fail, was probably a major factor in Hanoi's decision to accept the compromise agreement. The United States had dissociated itself from the final declaration, although it had stated that it would r...
South of the demarcation line after partition in 1954, the social system remained unchanged except that power reverted to a Vietnamese elite. The South's urban-rural network of roles, heavily dependent on the peasant economy, remained intact despite the influx of nearly a million refugees from the North; and land reform, initiated unenthusiasticall...
The Geneva accord stipulated that the southern half of Vietnam would be handed over to a provisional administration after two years at the most, and that general elections in 1956 at the latest, would give a united Vietnam a single government. However, soon after the agreement were signed, Washington, with French government consent, helped Ngo Dinh...
Ngo Dinh Diem, an anti-Communist Catholic, established the Saigon-based Republic of Vietnam in the south with the support of the United States. Diem became prime minister in 1954 and declared himself president in 1955. He and the United States refused to talk to representatives of Ho Chi Minh, and they used this and a rigged referendum as an excuse...
Among the most pressing problems facing Ngo Dinh Diem when he was called to office by Bao Dai in June 1954 was the existence of the Cao Dai, Hoa Hao, and Binh Xuyen, who held sway over vast quasi-autonomous territories. Charged with the task of unifying southern Vietnam, Diem realized he had to break the power of the sects and the Binh Xuyen, whose...
Meanwhile the Cao Dai, Hoa Hoa, and Binh Xuyen maintained an uneasy truce, broken by frequent clashes when one group trespassed on another's domain. Fearing that sectarian differences would result in the weakening of their resistance against Diem's demands, Bao Dai urged the three groups to unify. On March 5, 1955, the three groups, totaling 25,000...
Ngo Dinh Diem—the new Prime Minister of the Bao Dai government—was a fiercely anticommunist Catholic. His power base was significantly strengthened by million or so refugees from North Vietnam, many of them Catholics, who also hated the regime in the North. [Source: Lonely Planet =] The Diem government launched an anticommunist campaign in South Vi...
Sergei Blagov wrote in the Asia Times, "A daring young leader slain under mysterious circumstances while riding in an open car...hit by a sniper stationed high above him, shot from the back by carbine bullets that smashed into the victim's head." One would guess this is a description John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassination but such a guess would be w...
4 days ago · The Vietnam War (1954–75) was a conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. It was part of a larger regional conflict as well as a manifestation of the Cold War.
- Ronald H. Spector
- The United States had provided funding, armaments, and training to South Vietnam’s government and military since Vietnam’s partition into the commu...
- By nearly every metric, the Vietnam War was, in the common sense of the word, a war. The United States committed some 550,000 troops to the Vietnam...
- The question of who won the Vietnam War has been a subject of debate, and the answer depends on the definition of victory. Those who argue that the...
- In 1995 Vietnam released its official estimate of the number of people killed during the Vietnam War: as many as 2,000,000 civilians on both sides...
At the 1954 Geneva Conference, Vietnam was temporarily partitioned at the 17th parallel. Ho Chi Minh wished to continue war in the south, but was restrained by Chinese allies who convinced him he could win control by electoral means.
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4 days ago · The Vietnam War had its origins in the broader Indochina wars of the 1940s and ’50s, when nationalist groups such as Ho Chi Minh ’s Viet Minh, inspired by Chinese and Soviet communism, fought the colonial rule first of Japan and then of France.
2 days ago · Following the communist victory, Vietnam remained theoretically divided (although reunified in concept) until July 2, 1976, when the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was officially proclaimed, with its capital at Hanoi.
