nov 2, 1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem's Assassination
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Because of Diem ruling South Vietnam as a dictator, many people who favored a communist Vietnam began to control the countryside, resulting in Diem's decision to draft peasants into his army and bombard Viet Cong farms and villages, further angering peasants and leading to his eventual assassination by his own generals.
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