https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6 en-us 2021-02-25 14:52:59 UTC 2021-04-29 23:51:19 UTC hello@padlet.com cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1241418715 Entering as a mandarin of the lowest grade, he was able to get promoted swiftly.]]> 2021-02-25 15:05:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1241418715 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1241428814 Emperor Bao Dai wished to promote Diem from governor of the province of Phan Thiet, to minister of the interior, the most important ministry in Bao Dai's cabinet. This decision was supported by Nguyen Huu Bai and the French.]]> 2021-02-25 15:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1241428814 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1241459887 The French disregarded his suggestions, causing him to resign less than 3 months after serving, causing the French to strip him of decorations, keep him under surveillance, and even threaten him with arrest.]]> 2021-02-25 15:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1241459887 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1258746269 Diem, along with with the conservative Catholic politician Nguyen Ton Ho, formed the Vietnam National Alliance political party which called for Paris to accord Vietnam dominion status within the French Union.]]> 2021-03-02 15:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1258746269 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1258755658 Diem informs Hoey about the Indochina conflict and the best way to handle the conflict.]]> 2021-03-02 15:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1258755658 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1258772707 Emperor Bao Dai appealed to Diem to become premier by granting him "full powers" over all aspects of the South Vietnamese government, military, and economy.]]> 2021-03-02 15:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1258772707 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1273944709 A truce was signed by representatives of the French high command and the Viet Minh, bringing hostilities to a halt. Two conditions was Vietnam split into two and elections will be held in both sides.]]> 2021-03-05 15:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1273944709 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1273967834 Due to the Passage of Freedom, Vietnam's approximately 1,450,000 Catholics, over 1,000,000, lived in the south, fifty-five percent of them refugees from the north. The Passage of Freedom was a task force for evacuation.]]> 2021-03-05 15:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1273967834 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1293327477 A newspaper article that was critical of Diem pushed for a congressional investigation, which destroyed the misconceptions Americans had towards Diem, revealing the horrors in South Vietnam.]]> 2021-03-10 15:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1293327477 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1293348124 Government staged an election with Diem's win, allowing him to become first president. Ballot boxes were stuffed, voters intimidated, and the nation subjected to anti-Bao Dai propaganda.]]> 2021-03-10 15:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1293348124 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1348022315 Can Lao Nhan Vi Cach Mang Dang, a political party, was created by Ngo Dinh Nhu to support his brother. By 1956 Can Lao personnel controlled every facet of the administrative apparatus of South Vietnam, spying on potential traitors, pressuring government and army officials to join the party, and using torture and assassination to stifle dissent.]]> 2021-03-24 14:01:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1348022315 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1348041656 Diem issues Ordinance No. 6, which removed almost all restrictions on officials combating political opponents.]]> 2021-03-24 14:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1348041656 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1395940495 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, but the days of charging half the crop in rent were over. Diem also gave tenants the right to farm abandoned or uncultivated land. These measures contained only weak mechanisms to ensure compliance with the government's orders, and many landlords ignored them.]]> 2021-04-08 14:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1395940495 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1395957075 North Vietnamese executed about 15000 landlords to deal with the land ownership problem.]]> 2021-04-08 14:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1395957075 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1411981316 Caravelle Group made made a letter, demanding reforms, public at a press conference.]]> 2021-04-13 13:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1411981316 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1411993546 National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, better known as the National Liberation Front (NLF), was formed at Xom Giua, near the Vietnam-Cambodia border. This organization grew out of a decision taken three months earlier at the Third Party Congress of the Communist Party in North Vietnam.]]> 2021-04-13 14:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1411993546 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1442600099 Government troops attacked demonstrators who, gathered outside the National Assembly Building in Saigon, carrying banners that demanded government compliance with their five demands.]]> 2021-04-21 13:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1442600099 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1442607960 Quang Duc, along with other Buddhist monks, began to prepare for his protest. Quang Duc protested by burning himself in public at the intersection of Phan Dinh Phung Boulevard and Le Van Duyet Street, becoming a Martyr.]]> 2021-04-21 13:56:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1442607960 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1459572934 De Gaulle, French president, proposed a peace conference in Paris that would unify and neutralize France's former colony. The treaty was rejected.]]> 2021-04-26 13:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1459572934 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1459580987 Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, told his subordinates to make contact with high-ranking South Vietnamese officers and let them know that the United States would not look unfavorably on a change in government. The ambassador wanted to end out which ARVN generals seemed capable of unseating Diem, how much support they would requite, and how soon they would be prepared to move.]]> 2021-04-26 13:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1459580987 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1476226435 Diem was overthrown, allowing the coup to become successful due to Diem's unpopularity and the eagerness of the South Vietnamese to be rid of him.]]> 2021-04-29 23:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1476226435 cindy_seng https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1476227819 Within an hour, the first president of South Vietnam would be murdered between Diem’s arrest at St. Francis Xavier church and the convoy’s 11 o’clock arrival at JGS.]]> 2021-04-29 23:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cindy_seng/ybhkqb6iv01q2sg6/wish/1476227819