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Jan 12, 2021 · By 1964 America was deeply embroiled in a conflict in Vietnam that would, over the next decade, claim millions of lives including almost 60,000 US servicemen. But how did the war come about? Who were its major players?
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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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.
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 ...
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- 2010
Just before the French defeat, the US President Dwight Eisenhower used the term Domino Theory to describe growing concern over communist influence in Indochina. This theory was quite clear: if the communists were not stopped, then Burma, Thailand and Indonesia would be next.
The First Indochina War Began: December 19, 1946. The First Indochina War Ended: August 1, 1954. The First Indochina War Was Fought Between: French forces vs. Viet Minh, Pathet Lao, and Khmer Issarak Communist Rebels.
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This chapter briefly reviews the early history of the French involvement in Vietnam, and the effects of French influence on the Vietnamese. The information in this chapter will help readers decide whether the United States should have helped France to keep its colony of French Indochina.
