At a conference in Geneva, Vietnam was divided up, with the North becoming a Communist state under Ho Chi Minh and the South an anti-Communist society under Ngo Dinh Diem, a Catholic mandarin who had sat out the war in America and was now being installed by the Americans. Both sides, ironically, resented the Geneva settlement; the North, with good reason, felt it had been on the verge of a total victory but had been pressured by the Soviets to settle for half the pie.
