The Vietnam War: The Geneva Settlement

The Geneva settlement was inherently flawed from the beginning, because as a peace agreement, it never brought true peace to the region only more conflict both internal and external. There were no true common grounds on the matter as both the French and the United States desired the value of the acquired land, and saw the “free” state of Vietnam as a gifted virtue that needed to be exploited through colonialization. Although, their ideologies, and desires contradicted the desires of the general population of the Vietnamese people, and the people of Laos and Cambodia, which sparked some minor conflicts of interest, but the French and Americans had more power in the situation as the smaller nation-state required their strength to develop further,

In recognizing the relationship between the United States, and Ngo Dinh Diem, the people of the nation-state would often refer to Diem as My-Diem, which roughly translated to Americans Diem as the people of Vietnam believed that the war of resistance against the French puppet, Bao Dai never ended, it was merely transferred to the United States, and their political puppet Ngo Dinh Diem. Many of the South Vietnamese peasants saw the leadership of Diem on a level equal to Bao Dai as they perceived the relationship between their leader and his foreign allies as that of a puppet and his

Ideally, the outset that Ngo faced was not a pleasant one as the political field of the time was filled with criminals and political opponents that were particularly subverted in communism. The forces in Hanoi were mainly under the control of Ho Chi Minh, to whom had organized the population in a form of gangsterism, in means that he called insurance, in case the election did not sway that way that Ho had intended them too. Initially, the newly appointed Diem had been determined to deal with all of the set issues of the nation-state. When Diem had assumed power in the South, the nation-state was bankrupt and without the vital organs of government, due to the withdrawal of the French colonials, that had been the apparatus of the government in the area. Diem embarked on a regime of social reorganization, in a hope that it would disrupt the spread of communism in the area, and employ a better work ethic in the people in order to rebuild their economic standing in the world. The Rural Community Development Program was introduced by the Saigon Government in 1959. Effectively, the program was designed for the mass resettlement of the population, which called for the peasants located in small villages,