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Established the Communist-ruled Democratic Republic of USA in 1945. He stopped working because he had some health problems.
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North Vietnam and the Viet Cong successfully South Vietnam's regimes and beginning in 1964 withstood a decade-long military intervention by the United States.
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17th parallel north is where the two Vietnams were split.
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He wanted to unify the country. The Geneva accords were getting voted on.
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The idea behind this was that if communism was spread to one country it would get influenced by countries around it and keep spreading.
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The United States soon stepped up to fill the vacuum, increasing military aid to South Vietnam and sending the first U.S. military advisers to the country in 1959.
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The National Liberation Front is also known as the Viet Cong. The Viet Cong was located in South Vietnam.
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The U.S. military advisory effort in Vietnam had a modest beginning in September 1950, when the United States Military Assistance Advisory Group was established in Saigon.
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Buddism was the religion that the monk supported. He was attempting to show that to fight all forms of oppression on equal terms
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If Kennedy had lived, the debate over the Civil Rights Act would have occurred during an election year. The combination of Kennedy and Johnson would have tackled the bill, which would have been a protracted battle.
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USS Maddox is the ship that was fired upon. President Johnson took to the airwaves to inform the American public of the attack and to announce his intention to retaliate.
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On November 1, those evaluations became moot as a group of Vietnamese army officers, led by General Duong Van Minh, assassinated Diem and Nhu.
