Question 11 Why did the South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem and the United States team up in 1955? The upcoming election would have made a previously Catholic country Buddhist, a non-Christian faith Both wanted to take Asian territory recently rewarded to the Soviet Union thanks to the end of WWII The Soviet Union had approached the Northern leader Minh to hopefully be trading partners Diem knew that if Vietnam held a democratic election, he would lose to the much more popular Minh, who was a Communist

Question 11 Why did the South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem and the United States team up in 1955? The upcoming election would have made a previously Catholic country Buddhist, a non-Christian faith Both wanted to take Asian territory recently rewarded to the Soviet Union thanks to the end of WWII The Soviet Union had approached the Northern leader Minh to hopefully be trading partners Diem knew that if Vietnam held a democratic election, he would lose to the much more popular Minh, who was a Communist