ASAMST 20AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ngo Dinh Diem, Ngô Đình Nhu, Dương Văn Minh
4 Oct 2016
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Global restructuring and rise of newly industrialized countries. 1945 french return to power (reclaiming all of indochina: vietnam, cambodia, laos) 1954 dien bien phu (2,000 french deaths, 11,000 pows) Communist north- 120,000 supporters of democratic republic of vietnam moved so to no. Worked with us and republic of china vs. japan. Influenced by garveyism, korean nationalism, and chinese revolution. Us enters to support south led by president ngo dinh diem. Us support given to anti-communist in laos and cambodia. Diem overthrown by arvn gen. duong van minh. Congress authorizes president to take necessary steps to defend any member of the. 2nd indochina war: vietnam near collapse, vietnamese army 30% desertion rate. Us & rvn conducts 13 operations vs drv. 1969-73 us dropped 100,000 tons of bombs on vietnamese supply routes. 1959 cia recruitment of hmong soldiers to fight north vietnamese army and pathet lao. General vang pao leads 40,000 hmong troops trained by us.
