HIS343H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ngo Dinh Diem, Viet Minh, Phoenix Program
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"fdr helped define national security in "extremely broad terms, both geographically and ideologically" whereby. "long-standing, traditional concerns about u. s. territorial sovereignty [were fused] with a newer, thoroughly revolutionary desire to protect and promote america"s core values on a global scale" Us funds the french re-colonization effort "[the] initial commitment seemed limited and the risks seemed smaller than those of inaction [ ]" - george herring. May 1941: ho chi minh creates the viet minh. May 1954: french defeated at dien bien phu by viet minh. By the 1960s, sv is the 5th largest us aid recipient. Gvn to provide physical and psychological security and prosperity to villages. Jfk wants to win a war of national liberation. Number of us advisers in us grows from 300 to 16,000. Move them from their ancestral land to these built up areas. Goal was to reach "crossover point" where the enemy would not be able to replace losses.
