NO. Vietnam has never had truly free and democratic elections. In fact, the US was notable for effectively preventing voters in South Vietnam from voting for unification with North Vietnam in 1956.
The South Vietemese leaders knew that he would lose the elections. (APEX)
Feared that Vietnam would vote for a Communist government.
A Communist would likely win.
In 1956, it divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel into North and South Vietnam. They remained that way until the South Vietnam government surrendered to North Vietnam forces in April, 1975.
July of 1956.
The U.S. feared that Vietnam would vote for a communist government.
NO. Vietnam has never had truly free and democratic elections. In fact, the US was notable for effectively preventing voters in South Vietnam from voting for unification with North Vietnam in 1956.
I am not sure exactly what this question refers to. The US did not stop any elections during the Vietnam war. Certainly not in the United States. If the question refers to elections in Vietnam, actually in 1956 (before the US involvement), Ngo Dinh Diem stopped the elections called for in the 1954 Geneva Accords. It was only under US pressure, that he finally agreed to hold the elections which were held in 1959
The South Vietemese leaders knew that he would lose the elections. (APEX)
In 1956, South Vietnam, with American backing, refused to hold the unification elections. By 1958, Communist-led guerrillas known as the Viet Cong had begun to battle the South Vietnamese government. By; Kenya Z. T. In 1956, South Vietnam, with American backing, refused to hold the unification elections. By 1958, Communist-led guerrillas known as the Viet Cong had begun to battle the South Vietnamese government. By; Kenya Z. T.
Diem stated that elections would not being entirely free from communist influence, as the south had not been party to the 1954 Geneva peace agreements.
The 1952 and 1956 elections agains Adlai Stevenson.
1956
1956.
Feared that Vietnam would vote for a Communist government.
Diem cancelled it under the pretext that North Vietnam's communist government wouldn't keep the elections democratic; however another reason was that Ho Chi Minh was more popular than Diem and would have won the reunification election.