https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv Diem Unit Timeline en-us 2021-05-01 02:10:53 UTC 2021-05-01 04:03:58 UTC hello@padlet.com arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480423561 After graduating at the top of his class, Diem enters the imperial bureaucracy as a mandarin of the lowest grade, but is soon promoted]]> 2021-05-01 03:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480423561 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480425245 Diem, at 32 years old, assumes the position of the minister of the interior, beginning his extraordinary political career]]> 2021-05-01 03:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480425245 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480428020 Diem teams up with Catholic politician Nguyen Ton Ho to found the Vietnam National Alliance. It called for Paris to accord Vietnam dominion status within the French Union. (similar to Britain's commonwealths)]]> 2021-05-01 03:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480428020 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480431154 After becoming premier, Diem demands full powers over all aspects of South Vietnamese government, military and economy.]]> 2021-05-01 03:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480431154 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480432367 At the Geneva Conference in 1954, the French high command and the Viet Minh sign a truce to end hostilities and create a demarcation line along the 17th parallel, resulting in two temporary Vietnamese political entities.]]> 2021-05-01 03:26:17 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480432367 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480434882 The US Defense Department organized for an evacuation from NV to SV. There were over two hundred thousand North Vietnamese awaiting passage to SV.]]> 2021-05-01 03:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480434882 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480436480 The psywar team engaged in tactics such as propaganda in the form of posters aimed at North Vietnamese Catholics to persuade individuals to evacuate to SV. ]]> 2021-05-01 03:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480436480 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480438316 Diem wins an election against Bao Dai, making him the president (dictator-like), although the election was rigged in various ways. For example, campaigning for Bao Dai was illegalized. ]]> 2021-05-01 03:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480438316 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480440624 Diem appoints members of his family to any position in delegation that he could. One example is how he made his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, political counselor]]> 2021-05-01 03:36:25 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480440624 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480443011 Diem escalates his campaign to root out communist sympathizers in SV by passing Ordinance No. 6, which removed almost all restrictions on officials combatting political opponents.]]> 2021-05-01 03:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480443011 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480444518 Diem declared that landlords could collect no more than 25 percent of a farmer's crop; rents could be higher if the landlord furnished supplies like fertilizer. Diem also gave tenants the right to farm abandoned or uncultivated land.]]> 2021-05-01 03:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480444518 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480446013 This program was an agreement between SV and the US, allowing for the US to pump huge sums of money into SV for the purpose of promoting industrialization and economic self-sufficiency.]]> 2021-05-01 03:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480446013 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480447461 These elections were once again rigged in favor of Diem. The Saigonese government took actions to ensure that candidates were disqualified, threatened, etc.]]> 2021-05-01 03:44:59 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480447461 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480448999 This organization was formed with the goal of deposing Diem and repelling the Americans from SV in favor of a communist government in SV.]]> 2021-05-01 03:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480448999 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480450501 Diem proposed a plan to organize peasants in small communities with various amenities for the purpose of repelling VC influence and raise living standards. This plan backfired due to Diem's expectations of having the peasants construct the aggrovilles as well as his push for them to abandon ancestral land.]]> 2021-05-01 03:48:46 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480450501 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480452332 During the Battle of AP Bac, a small village southwest of Saigon, ARVN soldiers lost to the VC guerrilas despite being better equipped with weapons and vehicles. The soldiers were reluctant to fight and the generals were incompetent.]]> 2021-05-01 03:51:26 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480452332 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480453875 After the US Ambassador to SV left office, the head priest of the Buddhist heirarchy called for a two day fast to protest Diem's policies.]]> 2021-05-01 03:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480453875 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480455082 Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burned himself for a demonstration of Buddhist solidarity against Diem's policies (which were oppressive to the Buddhist). ]]> 2021-05-01 03:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480455082 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480456265 Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. hinted at the possibility of a coup against Diem's government, after seeing how he handled Madame Nhu's comments against the Buddhist. Kennedy saw this as an opportunity for victory, learning from the failed Bay of Pigs.]]> 2021-05-01 03:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480456265 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480458110 French President Charles De Gaulle called for peace agreements between Diem and Ho Chi Minh. Discussions regarding the possible conditions of such agreements were discussed amongst the statesmen. ]]> 2021-05-01 03:59:21 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480458110 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480459370 The fighting lasted less than a day, with the rebel count severely overwhelming Diem's loyalist forces.]]> 2021-05-01 04:01:14 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480459370 arianjahan2 https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480460177 They were killed in St. Francis Xavier church, and their bodies were taken to the JGS. Despite this coup, the VC still claimed SV after various governments rose and fell in SV following Diem's assassination.]]> 2021-05-01 04:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/arianjahan2/718gojhtsnrdhecv/wish/1480460177