US Support For South Vietnam Flashcards
The French asked President _______ of the USA to send American troops to help, their was even of _____ weapons but he refused to both because the United States had just ended the War in _____ where 40,000 Americans had died.
Eisenhower
Nuclear
Korea
Where were the leaders of France, Britain, China, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Vietnam meant to meet up on May 1954?
Geneva, Switzerland
True or false
They met in Geneva,Switzerland the day after the fall of Dien Bien Phu.
True
Eisenhower wanted the French to carry on fighting but they had, had enough. The Vietminh wanted early _____ so the whole of Vietnam could elect a government for the whole of Vietnam. They were confident of winning. The western powers wanted to long delay before elections because they were worried about __________ popularity throughout Vietnam.
Elections
Ho Chi Minh
What 3 points were agreed in Geneva?
- Vietnam would be divided in two along the 17th parallel-North under Ho Chi Minh and the South Under Ngo Dinh Diem.
- The Vietminh forces would withdraw from the South and the French would pull out of the North.
- A date for the elections was fixed:July 1956
In 8 years of fighting 400,000 _____ and _____ had died. But few at the time believed that the Geneva Agreement really would end conflict. For one thing the leader of the South, Ngo Dinh Diem refused to accept the agreement. Yet the Americans made it clear that they would support Diem because he was a strong enemy against ______.
Soldiers and Civilians
Communism
What was Eisenhower’s foreign policy later called?
The domino theory
What was the domino theory?
This was the theory that the countries of South East Asia were closely linked together. If one fell to communism, the others would also fall like a row of dominoes.
Give an example of the real life domino theory(China)
China became communist in 1949. North Korea and Vietnam also had communist governments. If the South Vietnamese ‘domino’ followed which country would be next Malaya?Burma?
Eisenhower was determined the communism would stop at the __ _________.
17th parallel
Diem was elected president of South Vietnam so this meant the United States would therefore have to prop up Diem’s government with _____,_______ and _______.
Money
Supplies
Military equiptment
Eisenhower knew that Diem would have to win the support of the people. The fact that Diem was _____ and most Vietnamese were ______ would not make this easier.
Catholic
Buddhists
The statistics for Diem’s election in 1955 tell a great deal about the kind of Government Diem planned and the kind of man the United States was backing. Diem won with ____ per cent of the votes. The Americans had advised him to only get 60 or 70. In Saigon there were 450,000 people entitled to vote but Somehow ______ people voted for Diem. Clearly he had cheated.
98.2
605,000
Eisenhower hoped that Diem would carry out land reforms to help ______ of the South get land of their own. Diem and the minister in charge of land reform was not interested.
Peasants
How did peasants get land in the South, and how this different to the North?
Land abandoned by its owners during the war would be taken by peasants who farmed on it, those few who did get land had to pay for it in installments. By contrast Vietminh distributed land in the North and gave it to the peasants.
