The French were defeated in the Dien Bien Phu battle in 1954. They were driven out then.
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, fought between March and May 1954, marked the end of French colonial rule in Vietnam. The Viet Minh, led by General Vo Nguyen Giap, decisively defeated French forces, leading to the Geneva Accords, which resulted in the division of Vietnam into North and South. This battle significantly shifted the balance of power in the region and paved the way for the later conflict involving the United States.
The French fought there from 1946-1954, and were defeated in what was later called North Vietnam at a place called Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Thus ending the war.
The French had fought there from 1946 to 1954; 1st Indochina War or French Indochina War.
The dates actually 1954, the French were beaten at Dien Bien Phu, they were ruling Vietnam as a colony at the time.
Both nations were created in 1954/55. North defeated the South on 30 April '75; 1975 one nation/Vietnam.
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Partition of Vietnam happened in 1954.
The French, along with their colonial allies the Moroccans, Algerians, Senegalese, and the pro-French Vietnamese. While the US had not yet committed military forces against Communism in Vietnam, it was financing a large part of the French war effort against them in 1954.
Vietnam was divided in 1954 into North Vietnam and South Vietnam following the First Indochina War.
It is somewhat like Korea. After the harsh colonial French Master had been soundly defeated by the Vietnamese, two groups of people had two different ideologies. One group was the Vietcong, Vietnamese Communists who were located in North Vietnam. The other group supported the idea of Democracy, and were located in South Vietnam. Note: North Vietnam had finally won the Vietnam War in 1970s with the aid of China and USSR (Soviet Union.). The Americans lost because the troops were not willing to fight the war as Vietnam was far from US and the troops couldn't see the point of winning the war.