His government was seen as corrupt. Diệm was deposed in a military coup in 1963,
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The leader of North Vietnam was Ho Chi Mihn.
At the end of the Vietnam War, Congress refused to support South Vietnam any longer.
South Vietnam
According to the Paris Peace Accords, the U.S. and their allied troops withdrew from South Vietnam by the end of April, 1973, leaving South Vietnam, and allowing them to decide for themselves the future status of their country. Within two years (April, 1975), North Vietnam forces occupied the south - including the Presidential Palace in SaiGon, where South Vietnam's Premier surrendered to the north.
When the Vietnam War ended in 1975, North and South Vietnam became one communist nation called Vietnam.