Internet Exercise 2

Repression and Guerrilla War

Please read the following document on Communist strategy in South Vietnam in 1956:

Then read Ngo Dinh Diem's Law 10/59:

Finally, read the 1960 Program of the National Liberation Front (NLF) of South Vietnam:


1		What changes in the global balance shaped Le Duan's contention that the Communists could best win power in South Vietnam through a peaceful strategy?



2		According to Le Duan, why was the success of the political revolution in South Vietnam inevitable? In his view, why did some revolutionary cadre still fail to understand and embrace fully the shift from military to political methods?



3		By what methods did Ngo Dinh Diem seek to destroy the Communist movement in South Vietnam through his Law 10/59?



4		Based on the NLF's program and its specific mention of Law 10/59, how successful was Diem's anti-Communist effort?



5		Why do you think the Communists shifted from Le Duan's peaceful revolution to an armed struggle through the establishment of the National Liberation Front's?



6		What were the NLF's chief goals? Why do you suppose the NLF refrained from explicitly seeking to establish a Communist regime South Vietnam?

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