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This is the first English translation of “Sur l’Indochine,” which was published in the February 1946 issue of Les Temps Modernes. While situated in a particular context and treating a specific issue, this essay offers one of the first sustained phenomenological reflections on interculturality and decolonization.
Unique in its wide-ranging attention to economic, social, intellectual, and cultural dimensions, it is the first book to treat Indochina's entire history from its inception in Cochinchina in 1858 to its crumbling at Dien Bien Ph in 1954 and on to decolonization.
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- Us Escalation
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9 March –An “independent” Vietnam with Emperor Bao Dai as nominal ruler is proclaimed by Japanese occupation authorities. 2 September 2 – The Communist-dominated Viet Minh Independence League seizes power. Ho Chi Minh establishes Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (GRDV) in Hanoi. 22 September –French troops return to Vietnam and lash...
6 March –France recognizes the Democratic Republic of Vietnam as a free state within the Indochinese Federation and French Union. 19 December –The Viet Minh initiate the eight-year Indochina War with an attack on French troops in the north.
8 March –France recognizes an “independent” state of Vietnam, Bao Dai becomes its leader in June. 19 July –Laos is recognized as an independent state with ties to France. 8 November – Cambodia is recognized as an independent state with no ties to France.
January –The newly-established People’s Republic of China, followed by the Soviet Union, recognizes the Democratic Republic of Vietnam led by Ho Chi Minh. 8 May – US announces military and economic aid to the pro-French regimes of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
7 May – The remnants of the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu surrender. 7 July –Ngo Dinh Diem, newly-chosen Premier of South Vietnam, completes the organization of his cabinet. 20-21 July – The Geneva Agreements are signed, partitioning Vietnam along the 17thParallel and setting up an International Control Commission to supervise compliance with th...
The French left in 1954 and Dwight Eisenhower’s pledge of assistance takes hold. Victory in the anti-colonial war (fought against the French between 1945 and 1954, and supported by US aid) saw Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia granted independence. Vietnam was split North and South, and by 1958 the communist north (Vietcong) were conducting military opera...
29 March – Diem launches his successful campaign against the Binh Xuyen and the religious sects. 10 May – South Vietnam formally requests US instructors for armed forces. 16 May – The United States agrees to furnish military aid to Cambodia, which becomes an independent state on 25 September. 20 July –South Vietnam refuses to take part in the all-V...
18 February –While visiting Peking, Cambodia’s Prince Norodom Sihanouk renounces SEATO protection for his nation. 31 March – Prince Souvanna Phouma becomes Prime Minister in Laos. 28 April –An American Military Assistance Advisory Group, (MAAG) takes over the training of South Vietnamese forces, the French Military High Command disbands and French ...
3 January – The International control Commission declares that neither North Vietnam nor South Vietnam has carried out the Geneva Agreements. 29 May –Communist Pathet Lao attempt to seize power in Laos. June –The last French training missions leave South Vietnam. September –Diem is successful in South Vietnamese general election.
April –A branch of the Lao Dong (Worker’s Party of Vietnam), of which Ho Chi Minh became Secretary General in 1956, is formed in the South, and Communist underground activity increases. May –The US Commander in Chief, Pacific, begins sending the military advisers requested by the South Vietnamese government. June-July –Communist Pathet Lao forces a...
Sep 1, 2011 · PDF | On Sep 1, 2011, Nguyen Thi Dieu published Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858–1954 – By Pierre Brocheux and Daniel Hémery | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
5 days ago · The Indochina War, 1945-1956 is an excellent interdisciplinary resource that provides specialists, teachers, students, and the public with a diverse range of tools and information on a conflict that has been largely overshadowed or absorbed as a small component of the American War in Vietnam.
Jan 1, 2021 · Negotiation between France and the DRV began on July 6, not in Paris, but in the nearby town of Fontainebleau, to isolate the Vietnamese delegates. On July 22, d’Argenlieu unilaterally convened a conference with Cochinchina, Cambodia, and Laos, to define the details of the Indochinese Federation.
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Sep 28, 2010 · Summary. The struggle for Indochina after 1945 occupies a central place in the international history of the twentieth century. Fought over a period of three decades, at the cost of millions of lives and vast physical destruction in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, the conflict captured in microcosm all of the grand political forces that drove the ...
