Why was Ngo Dinh Diem unpopular with his people and why did United States support him?

Question

Why did it withdraw that support in 1963?

Answer 1

Ngo Dinh Diem was a corrupt man who worked with his brother to terrorize his nation.

Diem was a devout Catholic, so much so that he had his country's secret police wage a war against the Buddhist majority of the country. One of the great events from this that brought the worlds attention to this was the suicide of a Buddhist monk who set himself on fire.

Once the world was turned to this atrocity being committed, it made the US Government (who was supporting him) look like fools. When Diem and his conspirators refused US efforts to stop, he was assasinated in a US funded coup.

History showed us later that Diem was a lessor of all evils. its possible that the US may have been able to get him to change, but we'll never know.

Answer 2

Ngo Dinh Diem was very corrupt, so his people could not trust him. The US supported him because he was not Communist. He was assassinated before Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.

Answer 3

Diem was Catholic and corrupt. His government didn't have the support of much of the populace. We withdrew that support when we recognized that we couldn't prop him up. Unfortunately, we failed to realize that there were no good alternative leaders in the South. After Diem's assasination, the US was revealed to have abandoned him and his wife and family. This didn't help our situation in the country and eventually, we gave up on the war and left. Predictably, in 1975, the North completed their invasion and occupation of the South and our efforts proved to be in vain.

Answer 4

You answered your own question. He was a US puppet, so he was unpopular with his own people. The US realized in 1963 that it wasn't gaining ground with Diem, so they effectively let him be overthrown.

Answer 5

He was a Christian westernized ruler who appointed family members and people like himself to positions of power in a Buddhists nation.
The US supported him because they had put him in power to prevent the unification of Vietnam under the communist government of Ho Chi Min.
The US withdrew support because he became increasing autocratic and to keep control he indulged in human rights abuses and/or he was losing his ability to govern

Answer 6

Ngo was the democratic leader of the south. We pulled out becuase we had been fighting for a very LONG time and it was apparent that we couldnt win

Answer 7

He was brutal & dishonest and put his brutal dishonest family members into high political positions. The US supported him because he was a democrat and an anti-communist.