Bao+Dai

Bao Dai was the Vietnamese emperor under the French. He was a similar "sell out" to Fulgencio Batista in Cuba in that he helped the foreigners keep the Vietnamese people down. He was the type of person that Ho Chi Minh was fighting, thus helping to cause the war. Bao Dai was displaced by Diem in 1955 and it was a bad dicision because Diem was catholic in a buddist area and of chinese decent. this is concidered to be a long term problem, because the us tried to make the situation better but the people they chose made thsi situation worse. Communists wanted Ho Chi Minh as their leader rather than chief of state Bao Dai the U.S strongly supported in his bid for power.


 * hilly's comment:** //this could be improved by making direct reference to the analytical terms in the writing.//