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Sep 13, 2017 · Both sides declare victory. • 1966: U.S. troop numbers in Vietnam rise to 400,000. • June 1966: American aircraft attack targets in Hanoi and Haiphong in raids that are among the first such ...
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May 30, 2024 · In 1975 South Vietnam fell to a full-scale invasion by the North. The human costs of the long conflict were harsh for all involved. Not until 1995 did Vietnam release its official estimate of war dead: as many as 2 million civilians on both sides and some 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters.
- Ronald H. Spector
The struggle for control of Vietnam, which had been a French colony since 1887, lasted for three decades. The first part of the war was between the French and the Vietminh, the Vietnamese nationalists led by the communist Ho Chi Minh, and continued from 1946 until 1954. The second part was between the United States and South Vietnam on one hand ...
- Jessica Pearce Rotondi
- The Collapse of French Indochina and Rise of Ho Chi Minh. Vietnam became a French colony in 1877 with the founding of French Indochina, which included Tonkin, Annam, Cochin China and Cambodia.
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu. The conflict between the French and the Viet Minh came to a head at the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu, when, after a four-month siege, the French lost to the Viet Minh under commander Vo Nguyen Giap, marking the end of French rule in Vietnam.
- The 1954 Geneva Accords Divide Vietnam. Diplomats from the United States, the USSR, the People's Republic of China, the United Kingdom, North and South Korea, and France, as well as representatives from the Viet Minh (northern Vietnam), the State of Vietnam (southern Vietnam), Cambodia, and Laos, in session at the Geneva Conference in July 1954.
- The Cold War. Vietnam was divided during the Cold War when tensions between the U.S. and The Soviet Union were at an all-time high. Mao Zedong proclaimed the creation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, and in January 1950, China joined with the Soviet Union to formally recognize the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Timeline of the significant events of the Vietnam War. After winning its independence from France in 1954, Vietnam was temporarily divided into two parts, North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The protracted conflict that became known as the Vietnam War followed, lasting for more than two decades.
The 1968 Tet Offensive, a coordinated communist attack on South Vietnamese cities, villages, and military bases, was a tactical failure but a strategic success.North Vietnamese forces were soundly beaten, but when U.S. General William Westmoreland requested more troops to press the advantage, the American public began to see the Vietnam War as a deepening quagmire.
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