![]() ![]() It can also be established-but less surely- that the Diệm regime alienated itself from one after another of those domestic sectors which might have offered it political support, and was grievously at fault in its rural programs. There was endemic insurgency in South Vietnam throughout the period 1954–1960. While there was clearly communications and perhaps arms supply from the north, there is little evidence of any Northern units in the South, although organizers may well have infiltrated. The insurgents were South Vietnamese rebels or northerners who had been living there for some time. There is little question that in 1957–1958, there was a definite early guerilla movement against the Diệm government, involving individual assassinations, expropriations, recruiting, shadow government. Vietnamese communists saw this as a second phase of their revolution, the US now substituting for the French.īetween the Geneva accords in 19, the two states created by the talks were still forming the influence of major powers, especially France and the United States, and to a lesser extent China and the Soviet Union, were as much an influence as any internal matters. The 1959 to 1963 phase of the Vietnam War started after the North Vietnamese had made a firm decision to commit to a military intervention in the guerrilla war in the South Vietnam, a buildup phase began, between the 1959 North Vietnamese decision and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, which led to a major US escalation of its involvement. Dương Văn Minh succeeds Diệm as president.Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm.Strategic Hamlet Program to combat the communist insurgency by means of population transfer of its supporters.Foundation of the National Liberation Front ( Viet Cong). ![]()
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