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Diem gained control of Bao Dia's most important ministry in his  cabinet and then resigned three months later when the French refused to listen to his more progressive ideas.

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The Japanese assumed control of Vietnam and they offered Diem the premiership of a puppet regime under Bao Dai but Diem turned it down and later regretted it.

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Ho Chi Minh offered Diem a high position job (same one he held under Bao Dia) in order to gain support from the Catholic people in Vietnam, but Diem turned down the position because Ho had kidnapped him and killed his brother + nephew and he did not like his politics.

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French reinvade Vietnam and Franco-Vietmin war begins.

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The US takes an interest in Asia because of the outbreak of the Korean War. They want to align themselves with anti-communist countries to stop the spread of communism.

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The US interviewed Diem for the position of emperor. He used this interview to manipulate the US and untimely, as a result of this and his Catholic faith, gained a a great deal of support in Washington.

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Viet Minh are winning the war because of the their tactics (including guerrilla warfare) despite the other side, France, having more resources

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After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, Bao Dai gave the position of premier (like prime minister) to Diem in order to gain the support of the US since they had just lost the support of France. In this position, Diem had full control over South Vietnamese government, military, and economy.

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Truce was signed at the Geneva Conference and the country was split into South and North Vietnam. Diem's side/French side was South Vietnam and the Viet Minh side was North Vietnam.

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By this date, over 200,000 Catholic refugees came from North to South Vietnam. This was in large part because a major leader in South Vietnam was Diem, a devout Catholic.

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In order to convince North Vietnamese people to come to South Vietnam, the US underwent a large propaganda effort. This was in order to make it would appear to the rest of the world that South Vietnam, and therefore the South Vietnamese government and its international backers, were preferred over North Vietnam by Vietnamese people and that they were the morally right side of the war

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Diem declared that landlords could collect no more than 25 percent of a farmer's crop, which meant that landlords could no longer exploit tenants to the extent that they had been.

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Diem established the Commercial Import Program (CIP), where the United States invested large amounts of money into South Vietnam. The money, rather than benefiting all Vietnamese equally, was spend largely in the military and urban areas.

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South Vietnam staged the referendum in which Diem was guaranteed to win because of voter suppression, propaganda, stuffing ballot boxes, and by the outlawing of campaigning for other candidates. Diem won with 98.2 percent of the vote because of these tactics.

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Diem escalated the Anti-Communist Denunciation Campaign by issuing Ordinance No. 6. This ordinance removed almost all restrictions on officials combating political opponents, meaning anybody viewed as an enemy of the state could be jailed or put under house arrest. This led to the loss of support from many lower class citizens in South Vietnam.

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Diem refused to hold the1956 all-Vietnam elections that were scheduled at the Geneva Convention in 1954 because he claimed that, given that he did not agree with the results of the convention or sign the accords, he was not required to.

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Kan Lao employees controlled the administration of South Vietnam.

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South Vietnam held elections for the National Assembly. Voter suppression and fraud played a huge role in determining winners.

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Diem creates the agrovilles campaign. The idea was to put peasants in heavily defended towns to protect them from communism and improve quality of life. However, he forced peasants to move from their homelands in order to live in these agrovilles and to build them themselves (without pay).

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Buddhist monks protested Diem policies for a week when, on this day, Diem sent government troops to attack protestors.

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A Buddhist monk publicly set himself on fire to protest the Diem regime. Madame Nhu made an incredibly inappropriate public comment about this demonstration, and as a result, the Diem regime looses external American support and internal Buddhist support.

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A coup was conspired between the United States and ARVN at around the same time that the treaty between South and North Vietnam was rejected because Diem was worried he would not hold on to power with it.