What wast the significance of Dien Bien Phu?

Answer 1

I believe it was because, the French were defeated by the Viet Minh rebels, which marked the end of French involvement in Vietnam.

The Vietminh defeated the French and ended colonial rule.

Answer 2

The defeat of the French by the Viet Minh was a demonstrable defeat of French forces in a set-piece conventional battle which marked the decline of French Colonial power in Indochina and their eventual departure .

Answer 3

The battle of Dien Bien Phu is remembered for the significance the defeat the Viet Minh had over French forces and the political and military ramifications the defeat /victory had for both sides as well as the effect it had upon future actions there in the Vietnamese arena of war and politics .

The defeat marked "the first time that a non-European colonial independence movement had evolved through all the stages from guerrilla bands to a conventionally organized and equipped army able to defeat a modern Western occupier in pitched battle." ~ Martin Windrow .

Answer 4

The Viet Minh was a demonstrable defeat of French forces in a set-piece conventional battle which marked the decline of French Colonial power in Indochina and their eventual departure .

Answer 5

The battle marked the beginning of the end for the French in Indochina .

Answer 6

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