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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu in North Vietnam in 1954.
1954
Dien Bien Phu
The French in 1954 were defeated at the battle of Dien Bien Phu March 13 - May 7, 1954 .
The battle of Dien Bien Phu was fought March 13th 1954 all the way until May 7th 1954 and it was the decisive engagement of the first Indochina War which went from 1946 to 1954.
Dien Bien Phu was the battle in 1954 where the French were defeated by opposing Viet Minh forces .
The battle marked the beginning of the end for French Colonial rule within Indochina .
It was at the battle of Dien Bien Phu that the colonial power France lost what was to be the last battle of their war against the Viet Minh. After this battle, the colonial powers conspired to divide Vietnam into two parts, North and South. This division, called the Geneva Accords of 1954, eventually led the communists in the north to try to re-unite the two parts of the country into one country. The attempts by the USA to prevent this led to the Vietnam War