HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The communist North invaded the democratic South
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South Vietnam did not want to hold elections to unite the country
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North Vietnam began to heavily bomb the South
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The communist South invaded the democratic North
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Detailed explanation-1: -The USA believed in the domino theory and feared if Vietnam fell to communism, other countries in South East Asia would follow. Consequently, the USA supported the anti-communist South Vietnamese dictator, Ngo Dinh Diem, who refused to hold elections to unify the country.
Detailed explanation-2: -The South Vietnamese government, on the other hand, fought to preserve a Vietnam more closely aligned with the West. U.S. military advisers, present in small numbers throughout the 1950s, were introduced on a large scale beginning in 1961, and active combat units were introduced in 1965.
Detailed explanation-3: -June. Diem abolished elections for village councils, apparently out of concern that large numbers of Viet Minh might win office.
Detailed explanation-4: -The last of the Geneva Accords-called the Final Declaration-provided for elections, supervised by the commission, to be held throughout Vietnam in July 1956 in order to unify the country.