Transcript December 1965 Cartoon from the Evening Standard (London) "Let

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Ho Chi Minh
Geneva Accords
Ngo Dinh Diem (pronounced “Z-em”)
National Liberation Front (NLF; better known
to Americans as the “Viet Cong)
Ho Chi Minh
1890-1969
Geneva Accords (1954)
• A temporary partition at the 17th parallel would
divide Vietnam into a North and South.
• France had 10 months to withdraw to south of
the division. The supporters of Vietnamese
independence would withdraw to the north.
• No military alliances could be made with outside
powers and no foreign military bases could be
built on Vietnamese soil.
• Elections were to be held within two years to
determine the leader of a re-unified Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Catholic leader of South Vietnam
(1955)
The Self-Immolation of a
Buddhist Monk (June 1963)