Oppression is perhaps the worst crime that man will ever inflict upon himself. Despite a tyrant's will, the fighting spirit of his followers never dies out. Oppression has the power to turn an average commoner into a force to be reckoned with. If you take a man's freedom from him he has nothing to lose, making him extremely dangerous.

Since 248 A.D., this oppression plagued China by the French and mainly the Chinese. Trieu Au, a nationalistic leader and hero of Vietnam, led a revolt against China. After being severely defeated, this hero committed suicide. Another case of pride brought on by the Vietnamese was when the Trung sisters led a revolt against China and also committed suicide. In our society, then and now, suicide is considered insane, an unforgivable sin c

(7) An International Control Commission consisting of Canada, Poland, and India was created to supervise the armistice of the elections.

(2) The Vietminh (supporters of Ho Chi Minh) were to regroup their forces north of the 17th parallel, while the French regrouped to the south of that line. Regrouping was to be completed within 300 days from the signing of the Accords.

The Vietnamese also hold close to their hearts the belief of an afterlife. They only value their pride in their country while being mortal. To do this means a pleasant afterlife so they would undoubtingly fight to the end to have a heavenly reward. Americans take for granted their rights of being the home of the free. That is the major factor that led to our defeat in Vietnam.

(6) Any Vietnamese government established in the south that was ruled over by the French, was to be bound by the Geneva records.

Ho Chi Minh, also known to the Vietnamese as Uncle Ho, became president of Vietnam in 1954. He studied Marxism and Communism after traveling for thirty years, living in France, The United States, and The Soviet Union. He became highly interested in a Democratic government and even attempted to establish this in Vietnam. His pleas went unheard after he sent a letter to Woodrow Wilson at the Treaty of Versailles asking for Democratic freedoms and a constitution. French Socialists, however, heard his pleas and convinced him to turn communistic. He then dreamed of one day springing a communistic revolution and has him, one day, standing on top of the world. It is my conviction that Vietnam would have stayed Democratic and the civil war would never have broken out if Woodrow Wilson would have paid more attention to other foreign affairs instead of keeping his head burrowed into a hole after World War II.

President Kennedy, like many Presidents who followed him, believed that in order to protect democracy, communism would have to be put to a definitive end. Even though Kennedy took a firm stand against Communism, he highly opposed the war in Vietnam. After 1,500 CIA trained Cubans lost their life after a failed raid on Cuba (known as the Bay of Pigs) to stop Fidel Castro and his reign of Communism, Kennedy completely opposed losing American lives for the purpose of ending Communism. Kennedy was assassinated before he could even begin peace talks in 1963. His successor was Lyndon Johnson, who was a firm believer in Kennedy's foreign policy. He aimed at getting our boys out of Vietnam but still give financial aid to the South Vietnamese. Johnson, however, was in a constant mind set that if he lightened up too much in Vietnam, then it would look like the Americans had giv

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