.000 men. There were many attempts at negotiations, despite these, the war still went on, many bombings followed the two first. These fightings and bombings took along many deaths. The citizens of America started demonstrations. They saw the Vietnam war as a pointless war which was taking far too many lives. The American public had concluded that the war was unwinnable. More peace talks were held. In May 1968 there were peace-talks in Paris. North Vietnam, South Vietnam, America and the Viet Cong were included in the peace talks, however no progress was made. There were certain people who played an important role in the Vietnam War:The South VietnameseNgo Dinh DiemNgo Dinh Diem was born in 1901, he die in 1963, during the Vietnam War. He was the mandarin ruler of South Vietnam from 1957 till 1963. Diem was catholic, a nationalist, and anticommunist. Diem was hated in his country, that he lasted as long as he did was amazing. He had a very harsh regime, with which the people werent happy. When he started the forcing peasants off their land, alienation of the Buddhists, and government corruption, it became too much. Diem's generals murdered him in an armoured car, in November 1963. Thieu took over his place as leader of South Vietnam.Nguyen ThieuNguyen Thieu was born in 1923. As an infantry commander, Thieu fought in the French army against the Vietminh. He became the leader of South Vietnam in the period between 1965 and 1975. During the Vietnam War he got support from the U.S. in his battle to fight the North Vietnamese. There was a lot of corruption and incompetence in the Thieu government. His relative success depended on 2 factors: he prevented the military from mounting a coup, and maintained the confidence of the U.S., upon whose money and support Thieu depended. In 1973 he signed the Paris Peace Accord, but Thieu later opposed it, claiming the U.S. had abandoned Vietnam.The AmericansRichard M. Nixon Nixon was born in 1913 and died...
