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1930
Indochinese Communist Party, opposed to French rule, organized by Ho Chi Minn and his followers.
In early January 1973 the Nixon White House convinced the Thieu-Ky regime in Saigon that they would not abandon the GVN if they signed onto the peace accord. On January 23, therefore, the final draft was initiated, ending open hostilities between the
The secret negotiations began in the spring of 1968 in Paris and soon it was made public that Americans and Vietnamese were meeting to discuss an end to the long and costly war. Despite the progress in Paris, the Democratic Party could not receive the
By 1968, things had gone from bad to worse for the Johnson administration. In late January, the DRV and the NLF launched coordinated attacks against the major southern cities, these attacks, known in the West as "The Tet Offensive", were designed to
One of the greatest ironies in a war rich in ironies was that Washington had also moved toward a limited war in Viet Nam. The Johnson administration wanted to fight this war in "cold blood". This meant that America would go to war in Viet Nam with the
In August 1964, in response to American and GVN espionage along its coast, the DRV launched a local and controlled attack against the С. Turner Joy and the U.S.S. Maddox, two American ships on call in the Gulf of Tonkin. These attacks occurred on August 2,
By the summer of 1963, because of NLF successes and its own failures, it was clear that the GVN was on the verge of political collapse. Diem's brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, had raided the Buddhist pagodas of South Viet Nam, claiming that they had harbored the
In 1961, President Kennedy sent a team to Viet Nam to report on conditions in the South and to assess future American aid requirements. The report, now known as "December 1961 White Paper", argued for an increase in military, technical, and economic
The united front had long and historic roots in Viet Nam. Used earlier in the century to mobilize anti-French forces, the united front brought together Communists and non-Communists in an umbrella organization that had limited, but important goals. On December
Using SEATO for political cover, the Eisenhower administration helped create a new nation from dust in southern Viet Nam. In 1955, with the help of massive amounts of American military, political, and economic aid, the Government of the Republic of Viet Nam