Note 1-B — CHAPTER 1 Background to Military Assistance The Geographic Setting—The People—Vietnam’s Recent History—Post-Geneva South Vietnam—The American Response

The population of most of South Vietnam’s cities and towns has been swollen by the influx of refugees which occurred as the Vietnam War intensified in the middle 1960s. In 1965, for example, refugee population estimates for the three major cities were as follows: Saigon—1.5 million; Da Nang—144,000; Hue—105,000.