Why Did Ngo Dinh Diem and President Eisenhower Refuse to Allow

question 46

Multiple Choice

Why did Ngo Dinh Diem and President Eisenhower refuse to allow national elections in Vietnam as called for in the Geneva accords?

• A) They believed the elections would have been virtually impossible to administer.
• B) They held that the 1955 South Vietnamese election had given Diem a mandate to govern.
• C) They feared that Communist leader Ho Chi Minh would win.
• D) They realized that the Communists would never allow a genuinely free election.

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