Ho Chi Minh, had tried to appeal personally to Woodrow Wilson in Paris as early as 1919 to support self-determination for the peoples of Southeast Asia.However, he would become increasingly communist while the US would become increasingly anti-communist. Eisenhower would initially give the French aid, who would lose to Viet Minh guerrilla warfare. As the nationalists took over the French, a multi-nation conference in Geneva would divide the country between North and South, with Eisenhower pledging to give further support to Diem in the South.

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