Before you know why you must know how the first began. It began with the defeat of the French after the battle of Dien Bien Phu.The victory led to the Geneva Conference According to Summer, The government only worried about the soldiers and the war and …show more content…
However America wasn’t really okay with this kind of set up. America feared that the elections for the new leader would not be free of communism leverage.They [America] also thought that if the communists won in Vietnam, communism would advance everywhere in Southeast Asia and become an even bigger fear of the U.S, “In a letter to Ngo Dinh Diem – the new Prime Minister of the Bao Dai government on October 23, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower promised American support to his government to ensure a non-communist Vietnam. Following through on that commitment, American aid to South Vietnam began as early as in January, 1955. The Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), Indochina was also re-organized into MAAG, Vietnam to train South Vietnamese army” . Early 1955, Diem had centralized his control over South Vietnam. He also had begun many political restraint and anti-communist campaigns throughout ,” in which 25,000 anti-government activists and communists were arrested and more than 1,000 killed as claimed by the communists. In return, communist