Ngo Dinh Diem was
a. the Viet Cong’s military strategist.
b. an anti-Communist; first supported, then abandoned by the United States.
c. South Vietnam’s ambassador to the United States.
d. killed during the Tet Offensive.
e. the person who negotiated the cease fire with Henry Kissinger.
ANS: B
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