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The Geneva Accords divided Korea in 1954
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In 1954 after the conclusion of the French Indochina War.
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It is the military demarcation between North and South Vietnam. Established by the Geneva accords in 1954
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Communist influence & military infiltration into South Vietnam began almost immediately after the Geneva Accords divided the country into North & South in 1954/55. The war grew from that point.
The Geneva Agreements of 1954 (also, "Geneva Accords") arranged a settlement which brought about an end to the First Indochina War. The agreement was reached at the end of the Geneva Conference. A ceasefire was signed and France agreed to withdraw its troops from the region.
See: Statistics About the Vietnam War. Recommended by the History Channel. Also try: Ho Chi Minh; and French Indo-China War.
Most Historians like to use 1961 as the starting point for the war. The Vietnam War was NOT a civil war. A civil war is two armies from the same nation fighting itself. North Vietnam & South Vietnam were separate countries. They were never one country called Vietnam until 1975.
There was probably no spark. It was Ho Chi Minh's plan to unite the two countries from the beginning. Infiltration from the north into the south began almost immediately in the 1950's. I think you could rightfully call the Geneva Accords the "spark". It was the Geneva Accords in 1954 that divided Vietnam into two separate countries with promises to hold general elections to unify it. However, when those elections were not held, the Viet Minh, rulers of the north, decided to unite the country by force.
Vietnam was nuked by terrorists of the North Pole