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Emperor Minh Mang created a policy which persecuted Catholics in Vietnam

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French infantry and armored divisions re-occupied Vietnam which then started the franco viet-minh war.

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This started to rise around the 1950’s. The Can Lao party allowed its agents infiltrate the military, educational systems and many parts of Vietnam. By 1956, the party had control of most administrations in South Vietnam.

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After Joseph Stalin’s death, Georgi Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev tried to move away from the foreign policies made. They wanted to have a “peaceful coexistence” with united States.

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This is the final stretch, where the french’s predominance diminishes and diem becomes premier.

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The truce agreement was signed on this date, which divided Vietnam into two altering political views.

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Diem issued a reform which protected the tenants, so that land owners can not take more than 25 percent of their crops as their source of rent. He also gave the tenants the freedom to farm on uncultivated or abandoned land.

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Diem believed in keeping a tight circle, so most of the governmental power was given to his own family members. Many communists gave threats to Diem because of the nepotism, so he made the Anti-Communism denunciation campaign. This exiled and arrested any communist believers.

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By 1956 Can Lao personnel controlled every administrative apparatus in South Vietnam, spying on potential traitors, and torturing and assassinating to stifle dissent.

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In mid 1956 land owners were being executed for their treatment against their tenants. About 15,000 were killed.

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Due to Diems abundance of power, newspaper articles prompted an investigation of Diem and the horrible things that Diem has done was started to be known.

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South Vietnamese politicians wrote a letter to the president, demanding reforms and on April 26, 1960 they made that letter public at a press conference. This was done on order to show the public how Diems reforms were tearing the country apart.

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On December 20, the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, was formed at Xom Giua, near the Vietnam-Cambodia border.

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Diem wanted to get the lower class citizens to like hime, so he created this campaign in order to give them shelter, however, his plan backfired and in January 20, 1961 he suspended the campaign.

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Pilots bombed the Norodom Palace, where the ruling family lived. They then had to move to Gia Long

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They Claimed the US threw away the opportunity to leave Vietnam without any casualties and ultimately wouldn't have led to a war because Vietnam would have became independent.

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The US ambassador left office, so Thich Tinh Khiet called a two day protest against Diem’s regime. Buddhists were lining up outside with banners demanding for their rights.

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The Viet Cong started to make their way by destroying Diem’s regime. The ARVN soldiers were preparing for war by gathering military weaponry and setting up a trap for the Viet Cong.

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On 3 June the Buddhist crisis turned violent, as government troops attacked demonstrators. Diem had forbidden public demonstrations in that city, but fifteen hundred defied the ban and assembled at Ben Ngu Bridge, the Tu Dam Pagoda.

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Quang Duc was a Bhuddist Monk who intentionally burned himself near Phan Dinh Boulevard in 1963 in order to protest against Diem.

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On September 2, Kennedy gave the dissident ARVN generals the signal they required when he sat for an interview with Walter Cronkite, at the Kennedy estate Hyannis Port.

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November 2, 1963 Diem was assassinated by the Coupe.