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=Dictionary Definition for the Vietnam War= ===It all started with the surrender of the French to the Vietnamese in on September 2,1945 after the war a line was drawn on the 17th parallel the Viet Minh or communists were ordered up to the north and he rebels or the people that wanted democracy went to the south. A peace treaty was formed. The entire country was to hold elections to vote for the leader that would rule both sides of the country but the US did not want there to be a Communist leader because it was said that the leader of the north Ho Chi Minh was to win the election and the US didn't want a Communist leader so they appointed Ngo Dinh Diem who was greatly opposed in the south and the North.=== ===Ngo Dinh Diem was from Korea but he was Harvard educated and a Roman Catholic and he would start showing favoritism to the Roman Catholics which the majority buddhist population didn't like and monks started publicly burning themselves to death as a form of protest against him Ngo also started trowing and even killing the people that opposed him and his rule so during Kennedy's presidency he was fired and assassinated. WIth the elections not taking place and the peace treaty broken the Vietnamese (in the north)decide to go back to war to reunite the country. Eisenhower sends 900 troops into vietnam that number will increase to 11,000 soon. When Lydon B johnson takes the presidency a unprovoked attack on a US ship in the golf of Tolkin fires him off and he sends troops to Vietnam in a undeclared war.=== 