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    the formation of the independent states of Laos‚ Cambodia‚ and Vietnam. (202) After that‚ South Vietnam received a newly appointed prime minister to lead‚ by the name of Ngo Dinh Diem‚ this was about to cause many problems to soon follow. The corruption began as the people discovered many things about Diem. For one‚ Diem believed that it was his people’s duty to obey him and gain his good will‚ not vice versa. (204) He did not entertain the idea that it was his obligation to gain goodwill of his people;

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    Vietcong increased. An alternative reason as to why the Vietcong gained support was because of the brutal and corrupt Diem regime. Diem was a Catholic but majority of the Vietnamese population was Buddhist. The Diem regime mistreated the Buddhist; they were not able to freely practice their religion. Many took part in protests and even died as martyrs. The unpopularity of the Diem regime resulted in many South Vietnamese resulting to Vietcong for help. Another reason for why the Vietcong gained

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    people‚ and the security of the U.S. as a known power‚ the only solution was intervention. Motivated by economic profit and the imminent threat of Soviet influence‚ the Eisenhower Administration acted upon the “Superman Complex” by supporting Ngo Dinh Diem‚ and divided Vietnam to impede the globalization of communism between 1945 and 1964. Eisenhower’s Domino Theory‚ along with America’s desire for greater economic prosperity‚ was the major impetus in Vietnam intervention. In 1954‚ Eisenhower proposed

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    Case 1Bombardier Aerospace | Prepared for: | AKM Mominul Haque Talukder Course Instructor Human Resource Management East West University Prepared By: | Group- 6 Name | ID No. | Ismat Jahan Senjuti | 2011-1-90-001 | Bani Biswas | 2011-1-90-002 | Nusrat Jahan | 2011-1-90-006 | Jubaid Rashid | 2011-2-90-008 | Mukshuda Akhter | 2011-3-90-002 | Nazmus Shakib | 2012-1-91-001 | Khandoker Mehedi Hasan | 2012-1-90-015 | Sec: 01 East West University East West University

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    current compensation plan: 1. Annual earnings of the company?s salespeople are below industry average. 2. The thresholds for commission pay ($0-300K‚ $300-500K‚ $500-1000K) are too large to motivate salesmen to strive to reach the next level. 3. Per diem and traveling expenses are drawn against commission (de-motivator). 4. Sales increase awards award on percentage‚ which is more motivating to low-volume salesmen than high-volume salesmen. 5. Salespeople have to wait one year to become eligible for

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    against the French since 1946. When the French were defeated in the battle of Diem Bien Phu they withdrew from Vietnam. After the peace resolution in Geneva the country was split in half. The north became communist under the leadership of Ho Chi Min whilst the south became anti-Communist under the leadership of Dinh Diem. The government from the south was weak‚ ineffective and unpopular. However the USA supported it since Diem was anticommunist. The north wanted to unite Vietnam under a communist nation;

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    The Vietnam war was a long‚ deadly and costly war that was fought to stop the spread of communism by the North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh. The War lasted around 20 years. The United states Participated in the war 17.4 years making it the one of the longest U.S war participations. To Begin With‚ Why did the Vietnam war start and why Did the United States get involved? In the early 1880s France conquered Vietnam and combined it with the neighboring countries Cambodia and Laos to create a colony

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    Japanese occupation and the French occupation. The French defeat in Indochina could be regarded as the event that triggered the start of the Vietnam War. After that came a period of peace for Vietnam until the United States supported president‚ Ngo Dinh Diem came to power in South Vietnam. After Kennedy came to power in the United States he took a stand to stop communist expansion in Vietnam. He did not put much emphasis on Vietnam and communism continued. Lyndon Johnson also tried to stop communism in

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    conference‚ the U.S. moved to create the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization to protect Indochina from communist aggression. The U.S. supported the new leader Ngo Dinh Diem when he took power in South Vietnam. The National Liberation Front‚ also known as Vietcong‚ was a guerilla group who supported the communist North Vietnamese and opposed to the Diem rule. At first the United States attention was diverted from Vietnam to other

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    Trenton Wieberg. HIS-350-O. Before 1960‚ what struggles did the Vietnamese have in gaining independence? Why did the United States begin to have interests in Vietnam from 1945 to 1963? “President Franklin D. Roosevelt seems instinctively to have recognized that colonialism was doomed and that the United States should identify with the forces of nationalism in Asia” (Herring‚ 9). These words seem so ironic would compared the course of actions that United States politicians would take concerning

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