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Ngo Dinh Diem consolidated his power as the President of South Vietnam. He declined to have a national election to unify the country as called for in the Geneva Accords. In North Vietnam Ho Chi Minh apologized for a disastrous land reform program he had initiated in 1955. The several thousand Viet Minh cadres the North had left behind in South Vietnam focused on political action rather than insurgency. The South Vietnamese army attempted to root out the Viet Minh. France completed its military withdrawal from Vietnam. The United States expanded the number of its military advisers in South Vietnam. The first American killed in the Vietnam War died June 8 at the hand of another American soldier. In 1956 the term Viet Cong came into use and gradually replaced the older term Viet Minh. The government-controlled Saigon press first started using the term referring to communists in South Vietnam as ''Viet Cong'' a shortening of ''Viet Nam Cong-San'' which means "Vietnamese Communist."〔 ==January== ; 11 January President Diem issued Ordinance Number 6 which permitted the imprisonment of communists and others "dangerous to national defense and common security."〔"History.com This Day in History" http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/diem-issues-ordinance-no-6, accessed 10 Aug 2014〕 Diem's anti-communist repression reduced communist party membership in South Vietnam by about two-thirds between 1955 and 1959, but the repression also alienated many non-communists.〔Jacobs, Seth ''Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Diem Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963'' New York: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing, 2006, p. 30〕 In the words of scholar Bernard Fall, Ordinance No. 6 gave the Diem government "almost unchecked power to deal with the opposition--and the non-Communist opposition, least inured to clandestine operations, was hit hardest. The non-communist opposition to Diem came mostly at this time from the Cao Dai and Hoa Hao religious sects and the Binh Xuyen criminal mafia.〔Fall Bernard, (1966) "Viet Nam in the Balance", ''The Australian Quarterly'', Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 21-22〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1956 in the Vietnam War」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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