The battle of Dien Bien Phu which was thought between March 13 - May 7, 1954.
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The French war came first (1946-1954).
The first Indo-China war between Vietnamese troops and French forces started in 1946 and ended in 1954 with Vietnamese victory at Dien Biên Phu. US involvement in Vietnam started in 1955.
US involvement began in Vietnam before the French defeat. Military advisers, intelligence, weapons, aircraft and the full support of the CIA's Air America. Vietnam was a French colony from the 1860s till 1940, when it was seized by Japan. Ho Chi Minh organized a resistance movement against the Japanese (and also against French collaborators). In the later stages of World War 2 the U.S. sent miliatary advisers to Ho Chi Minh and President Roosevelt promised the Vietnamese that if they threw the Japanese out of the country they would get independence after World War 2. In 1946 the French 'repossessed' Vietnam and the guerrilla war continued. The French suffered a devasting defeat in 1954 and withdrew. The country was then divided into North and South. The North was Communist; the South was very badly governed by a bizarre anti-Communist regime. Gradually, the U.S. inceased its involvement. Large scale U.S. involvement dates from about 1961 onwards.
Communism
Military Dictatorship
The inability of the United States to defeat North Vietnam reveal cracks in the seemingly impenetrable military might of the country because the United States were suppose to be one of the worlds powers and to have to fall to such a small country's military as the North Vietnam.
the philosophy is communism.
The inability of the United States to defeat North Vietnam reveal cracks in the seemingly impenetrable military might of the country because the United States were suppose to be one of the worlds powers and to have to fall to such a small country's military as the North Vietnam.
After France's defeat, Vietnam was divided at 17 degrees north latitude. It was created at an international peace conference in Geneva.
The defeat at Dien Bien Phu led the French military to surrender their positions in Vietnam. The French left Vietnam, leaving the United States at the forefront of the conflict.
This military defeat made the French realize the futility of using military force to hold onto Vietnam as a colony. So they left. (What, you never heard of Wikipedia? Why waste peoples' time answering things that are a simple click away?)
Vietnam or Indochina, was occupied and administered by the Japanese. It was a former French colony and after the war, was reoccupied by France. They were ousted by the communists in 1954 at Dien Ben Phue in northern Vietnam. It was a humiliating defeat with thousands of French soldiers being forced to surrender.