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Ngo Dinh Diem After refusing Ho Chi Monh's invitation to join the Communist movement, Ngo Dinh Diem led South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963, when he was killed by his generals in a coup.
Dec. 3, 2002 -- -- President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam had come to power in the 1950s with American assistance, and was expected to help America defeat communism in Vietnam. But by 1963, it ...
The coup was all but over before Diem and Nhu learned that they had been betrayed. The Buddhist origins. ... South Vietnam, with almost every farm a battlefield, ...
The 16,000 American military personnel in South Vietnam at the time of the 1963 coup grew tenfold within two years and more than thirty-fold within five. The rest is a sad and better-known story.
Triumph Forsaken The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar Cambridge, 542 pp., $32 In the late summer of 1963, President John Kennedy dispatched two observers to South Vietnam. Their mission was to ...
The State Department cable called for President Diem to remove his brother from a position of power and threatened U.S. support for a military coup in South Vietnam if he refused, according to the ...
Saigon, South Vietnam, 1963: A Vietnam marine celebrates on the streets after the successful coup deposing president Ngo Dinh Diem on Nov. 1, 1963, by a group of Army of the Republic of Vietnam ...
Diem and his brother Jacob Ngo Dinh Nhu, who served as an adviser, were assassinated in a CIA-backed military coup in Saigon on Nov. 2, 1963. After his death, South Vietnam was further thrown into ...
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