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Ngo Dinh Diem is born to a relatively well-off Catholic family in Central Vietnam.

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Diem makes his way into politics and becomes a mandarin at the age of 20. By mandarin, it is meant imperial bureaucrat, not the orange. Diem did not become an orange. He is noticed by well-ranked officials through his nationalist rhetoric.

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Diem, along with his supervisor Nguyen Huu Bai, actively suppress communist cells. Actively researching and facilitating communist activity, he served as a key asset to help the French crack down on communist demonstrations and strikes in 1929. His usefulness to the French furthered his career opportunities upward.

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Following another subsequent crackdown of communist activity, Diem is promoted to governor of Phan Thiet.

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Diem caught the attention of Emperor Bao Dai. He was promoted to Minister of Interior. However, he resigned only a few months after due to some disagreements regarding internal policies and his natural dislike of the French.

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Vietnam becomes a complete Japanese puppet. Diem turns down a position of power under Bao Dai, but almost immediately regrets. His brother and son become victims of communism.

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The French reestablish their colonial rule in Indochina. Due to his newspaper being shut down, Diem's public persona makes him seem like a patriot and both anticolonialist and anticommunist. Franco-Viet Minh War begins.

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The Americans, as usual, decided to look at what's going on in the other side of the world and intervened in the Franco-Viet Minh War. Due to Bao Dai's incompetency and overall national dislike, Diem was noticed by the Americans as a useful lackey to prevent Vietnam from going communist.

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Peace was signed between the French and Vietnamese. As a result, Vietnam was cut into two states according to the Geneva Accords: a socialist North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh and a capitalist South. In addition, elections were to be held in two years.

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The socialist North had the partial support of the Soviet Union due to the untimely death of General Secretary Josif Stalin. In addition, historic rivalries with the Chinese resulted in only partial Chinese support. Diem, on the other hand, was beginning to be groomed for power by the Americans due to the merciless anticommunist foreign policy.

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Diem attempted to solve the extreme issue of land division. Unlike the communists, who simply redistributed and collectivized the land through forceful measures, Diem needed to keep the peasant-landlord social relationship. His solution was to lower the crop rent to no more than 25%. However, this did not exactly solve the issue altogether either.

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Diem begun cementing his election campaign. Liberal democratic measures, such as rampant lying and fabrication of election results helped cement Diem as the savior of the Vietnamese nation from the disgusting internationalist Communist swine in the North.

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The CIA did not sit idly either. Psychological warfare, sponsored by the CIA and Colonel Edward Lansdale. Rumors of Chinese collaboration with the Viet Minh furthered the schism between South and North.

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Diem's extended large family also did not sit idly. Thanks to Ngo Dinh Nhu, the Can Lao party was formed which further expanded on the family's political power in South Vietnam.

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The Americans create the CIP (Commercial Import Program.) This introduces commercial products such as television sets, refrigerators, etc. into the Vietnamese market. The only issue is that this can only be afforded by the middle-upper class and only solves a fraction of the problem.

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Diem's old habits of hating communists once again show. He creates the Anti-Communist Denunciation Campaign. An open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary and chauvinistic elements began to form. However, this campaign backfired and only accelerated many peasants to sympathize and turn to the communist side instead.

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Diem gets reelected into power through the same terrorist dictatorial methods sprinkled with reactionary and chauvinistic elements again. Candidates could not speak to groups more than 5 people or have their name written about in the newspaper. Diem essentially kept on consolidating his power and removed elements that would stop him.

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A group of South Vietnamese politicians forwarded a letter to the United States and international community to raise awareness of the mess happening in Vietnam. Of course, this was ignored and not mentioned anywhere in the South Vietnamese newspapers. This did little to help against Diem's regime.

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As a reaction to Diem's open terrorist dictatorship, a National Liberation Front, South Vietnamese communists, began to form. Centered around Xom Giua, these partisans declared a united bloc of peasants, workers, and soldiers who combat American imperialism and the Diem regime.

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Due to the disastrous state of private property in the country, Diem launched another genius land reform campaign. Based off of the British experiment in Malaya, agrovilles were built around Vietnam to quarantine the peasants from communist ideology. Obviously, this proved unrealistic and failed. Not a lot of people were keen on moving away from their ancestral land and small gated communities could not stop the ideology of Marx and Lenin.

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The South Vietnamese lost tragically at Ap Bac. The partisan groups managed to troll the Americans and discredited them in the eyes of South Vietnamese citizens. Diem threw a party the next day to commemorate his birthday. Happy Birthday Ngo Din Diem.

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Following numerous Buddhist protests, a Buddhist monk by the name of Thich Quang Duc burned himself alive out of protest. He became a martyr and this severely severely impacted Diem's reputation in the negative on the international stage.

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The response to this was Diem's most popular reform: continuation of violent repressions. The international community condemned South Vietnamese actions especially after an extremely unprofessional interview with Madame Nhu.

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Talks about possible reunification occur between the Politburo and Diem's regime. Under the diplomatic supervision of Charles de Gaulle, unification would only occur if the Americans left. The Politburo suggested a federated state where Diem would be able to keep his regional power. The Americans refused and any illusion of peace shattered.

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President John F Kennedy and the American government begin scheming to assassinate our beloved South Vietnamese leader to ensure the communist menace does not grow following his generous reforms.

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President John F Kennedy conducts an interview with Walter Cronkite where he essentially gives the greenlight that "Diem must go." Dissident generals understood and began scheming themselves.

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Exactly two months later, on All-Saints Day, Ngo Din Diem was out to be arrested. When he tried escaping, he was shot and killed. The body was buried in an unmarked grave. The coup, sponsored by the Americans, was done with professionality and clean. At the age of 62, Diem was no more.