Diem faced multiple threats: some members of his inherited government and military were associated with the hated French mobsters controlled much of Saigon and French-supported armed religious sects and military officers challenged his leadership. So he pledged support to an emerging leader-Ngo Dinh Diem-a devout Catholic and fervent anti-French, anti-communist nationalist.
He believed "losing" South Vietnam to communism would be a strategic, economic, and humanitarian disaster. Then-President Eisenhower didn't want reunification to result in a Communist Vietnam. It also called for an election in 1956 to reunify the two.
The agreement separated Vietnam at the 17th Parallel, creating a communist state in the North and a French-backed non-communist state in the south. The 1954 Geneva Accords settled the war between France and North Vietnam, called the First Indochina War.
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