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He was a Vietnamese Communist leader. Nationalist revolutionary Ho Chi-Minh was president of North Vietnam from 1954 to 1969. He ranks among the most famous and influential politicians of the 20th century.
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North Vietnam successfully opposed a series of South Vietnam's regimes and in the beginning in 1964 they withstood a decade-long military intervention with the United States.
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The nation was divided that the 17th parallel.
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He opposed reunifying the two Vietnam states. The Geneva Accords were what was being voted on.
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In Eisenhower’s view, the loss of Vietnam to communist control would lead to similar communist victories in neighboring countries in Southeast Asia.
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The United States soon stepped up to fill the vacuum, increasing military aid to South Vietnam and sending the first U.S. military advisers to the country in 1959.
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They were also known as the Viet Cong. They occupied South Vietnam.
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The U.S. military advisory effort in Vietnam had a modest beginning in September 1950, when the United States Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), Vietnam, was established in Saigon.Apr
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The religion that the man belonged to was Buddhism. He did this because he wanted to show to fight all forms of oppression on equal terms
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If Kennedy had lived, the debate over the Civil Right Act would have occurred during an election year. The combination of Kennedy and Johnson would have tackled the bill, which would have been a protracted battle.
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The name of the ship is U.S.S. Maddox. It was reported that it had been fired upon by North Vietnamese patrol boats.
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On November 1, those evaluations became moot as a group of Vietnamese army officers, led by General Duong Van Minh, assassinated Diem and Nhu.
