ENGL 583 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ngo Dinh Diem, Army Of The Republic Of Vietnam, Domino Theory
24 Mar 2016
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Still the viet minh have a lot of power and popularity. The korean war was the first time the us got involved in vietnam. Usually they don"t get directly involved/they don"t send troops but they bill the french to send troops. The americans fears about communism becoming important was overwhelming. The chinese were offering troops and supplies : ho chi minh takes the supplies but doesn"t want the troops. Historically the chinese and vietnam didn"t really get along. Ho chi minh didn"t want chinese troops in his country. Final defeat for the french : dien bien phu march 13 - may 7 1954. Conference in geneva to discuss the situation in korea, vietnam war was also on the agenda. Powers there decide to give laos and cambodia independence and decide to temporarily divide vietnam along the 49th parallel to decide how to administer vietnam in the next years.
