Causes of two civil wars

Last updated Dec 16, 2022 Edit Source

• Vietnam Civil War

  • appopriate time range: 1954-1959

    • from geneva accords to the outbreak of the war

  • Introduction

    • briefly about French colonization and Japanese domination
    • divided by 16th line, french recolonization of South Vietnam
    • the First Indochina War
    • state that the war stated in 1959, because Vietcong became strong in 1959
      • ambigouous starting point, so need to define
      • Civil War isn’t North vs South
        • Civil War was Vietcong vs South

  • Political

    • Geneva Accords
      • America & South Vietnam did not sign
        • America weakened the Geneva Accords
          • ex: SEATO
            • Ignores the neutrality of Laos and Cambodia
            • Protects South Vietnam
    • Refused election
    • Unpopularity of Diem
      • religious difference
      • stopping buddist birthday
      • monk burning, madam “bbq”
      • (eventually leads to assasination) (it’s after the outbreak, so it’s not causes though)
    • Escalation by the US presidents
      • do not want to be the president who “lost Vietnam”
      • aim to “prove” democracy in Vietnam

  • Economic

    • Support of the US to North Vietnam
      • “nation building”
        • (how this connects to the outbreak?)
      • aids increasing
    • Taxes on farmers
      • Ho’s Marxist ideology rises

  • Territorial

    • “strategic hamlets”

      • making more South vietnamese against Diem

    • Vietnam next to China

      • Domino theory
      • Easy to send weapons from China

    • Geopolitically (?) important location of Vietnam

    • Geneva Accords

      • 17th line

  • theories:

    • QUagmire, Stalemate, Commitment trap

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