Question

Explain the difference between the two groups in Vietnam – North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh and South Vietnam under Ngo Dinh Diem?

Answer 1

At the Geneva peace talks, Vietnam was divided into communist North and non-communist South

Explanation:

North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh

• Ho Chi-Minh was the North Vietnamese president and was eager to reunite his country under communist rule. In 1954 Ho began a movement for land reform. Drafted according to Chinese land reform schemes, the plan proved in two years' time to be a disappointment and so unpopular among Vietnamese farmers that they revolted.
• In its effort to make the program succeed nearly five thousand Vietnamese farmers have been killed by the Ho administration. Ho Chi Minh founded the National Liberation Front or Viet Cong in 1960 to oppose the Non-communist government in South Vietnam supported by the Americans.

South Vietnam under Ngo Dinh Diem

• Ngo Dinh Diemwas the United States-backed leader of South Vietnam from 1954. While Diem's leadership vowed to create a democratic republic, it was far from democratic and his policies were always contentious. He disregarded Geneva Accords and was not prepared to allow the reunification elections to be held in 1956.
• Diem also promoted nepotism, nominating relatives, associates and supporters  to positions of power or privilege. In the late 1950s Diem's power base began eroding. In 1959, Hanoi began re-orienting its activities by seeking to remove Diem through NLF.
• Furthermore, Diem's agricultural reforms, agricultural m certainly-settlement proposals and pro-Catholic social changes sparked growing resistance leading to the support of the NLF by many South Vietnamese. Diem's public reputation had been diminished by 1963 in the USA and around the world. In the mid 1963. In a coup in November 1963, he was subsequently overthrown and executed.