Biography of Ngo Dinh Diem, 1901-1963.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:43:02
Category: / Literature / Biographies
Length: 3 pages (951 words)
Category: / Literature / Biographies
Length: 3 pages (951 words)
In history, Ngo Dinh Diem has largely been viewed as a dictator, whose despotic and repressive regime to maintain power led Vietnam into a dangerous relationship with the United States and to a disastrous civil war. Born in 1901 when Vietnam was under the colonial rule of the French, Diem was part of an aristocratic Roman Catholic family with close relationships to the emperor. His father was a prominent government official and adviser to the Emperor, …
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…the U.S public as brutal and corrupt. The U.S administration under President J.F Kennedy came to view Diem as an embarrassment. As a result, the U.S supported a group of ARVN generals who organized a coup d'état against Diem. On November 2, 1963, in a suburb of Saigon, Diem's tyrannical regime was finally put to an end as he was assassinated along with his brother Nhu while attempting to flee.
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