Reason four - The weak South Vietnamese Government
As a result, much of South Vietnam's population was rebelling against him. The peasants wanted communism and supported the Vietminh and the NLF. In 1963, President John F Kennedy sent 16,000 military 'advisers' to help the South Vietnamese army.
China had become communist in 1949 and communists were in control of North Vietnam. The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government.
The grandfather clause was widley used more by the southern states during the reconstruction and the jim crow era, were they would ask black voters to show their grandparent's aquired or granted rights; sometimes even asking to prove the ownership of said granparent over a piece of land with a property title
