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Nation Torn, A: Nation Torn-The Two Vietnams, A
The United States is confident of its abilities to rebuild South Vietnam given its track record after World War II. Ngo Dinh Diem is hand picked as leader of the south. Elections to reunify the country do not take place in 1956. Members of the Commu...
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Nation Torn, A: America's Relationship with Ngo Dinh Diem
From 1954 to the 1970s Diem fills jails with people in the South suspected of being Communist. People are tortured and killed. When several Buddhists are killed for demonstrating in 1963, Kennedy sends Henry Cabot Lodge to Vietnam to bring order to ...