US Intervention

Nancy Wiegersma
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Nancy Wiegersma: Fitchburg State College

Chapter 9 in Vietnam: Peasant Land, Peasant Revolution, 1988, pp 174-201 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract After the victory of the Viet Minh forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and the achievement of a temporary military settlement with the French at Geneva, the USA became increasingly involved in Vietnamese politics. The 17th Parallel, which had been designated in the Geneva agreement as a demilitarised zone, was turned into a border between the Viet Minh-controlled North and the South where a US-sponsored government was headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. The specifics of the origin of the US involvement are well documented elsewhere and we need only recall here that by 1954 the USA was providing 80 per cent of the funding for the French war in Indochina and that by January 1955 the USA had become the direct paymaster of the South Vietnamese military.1

Keywords: Land Reform; Communal Land; Land Title; Retention Limit; Rice Export (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-09970-2_9

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