Source A After visiting a village in the Banmethuot mountain region of Vietnam on 12 June 1955, Ngo Dinh Diem smiles and waves at the crowd cheering him as he walks back to his car
In 1954 France withdrew from its former colony of Indo-China after fighting an intense counterinsurgency campaign against Vietminh guerrilla forces. These forces were led by Ho Chi Minh who accepted a peace deal at Geneva with the French. He agreed that Indo-China would be divided into North and South Vietnam and that he would became leader of North Vietnam.
US President Dwight Eisenhower:
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