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| Creating a Crisis: The Diem Coup as an American Construction | ||
| 作者 | Koch, Glen Emmett, II |
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| 出版日期 | 2007 |
| 頁次 | 38 |
| 出版者 | Liberty University |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.liberty.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Lynchburg, VA, US [林奇堡, 維吉尼亞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 校院名稱 | Liberty University |
| 畢業年度 | 2007 |
| 摘要 | On May 8, 1963, the South Vietnamese Civil Guard killed eight Buddhists who had protested the ban on flying the Buddhist flag. Events such as this ignited a political confrontation between the Buddhists and the South Vietnamese government. Although practicing Buddhists did not make up a majority of the population, they effectively enflamed the Vietnamese people against Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of South Vietnam, and captured the attention of the American news media by staging sacrificial suicides, hunger strikes, and street protests. The United States tried to convince Diem to make some concessions to the Buddhists, but their powers of persuasion proved ineffective. Without seriously considering an alternative to the Diem government, the administration ultimately backed a coup led by Diem's disgruntled generals. However, the coup did not provide the stability that the administration sought. Instead, the post-coup government became more dysfunctional than its predecessor and would only survive for two and a half months. The military coup of 2 November 1963 that overthrew the Diem government in South Vietnam would not have happened the way it did if the American administration had not over-reacted to the Buddhist crisis, and the nation would not have experienced a messy aftermath had the White House planned for a post-Diem South Vietnam. |
| 點閱次數 | 87 |
| 建檔日期 | 2009.10.09 |
| 更新日期 | 2016.02.19 |
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