Terms

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 Minh1890-1969

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 DiemCatholic leader of South Vietnam

(1955)

The Self-Immolation of a Buddhist Monk (June 1963)