French Indochina Timeline

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  • France Invade

    2,500 French troops invaded Vietnam on August 31st of 1858

  • French Colonial Rule Begins

    the french officail start ruling ove indochina

  • Ho Chi Minh.

    After many years of being under french rule vietname Ho Chi Minh starts a communist party

  • Independence of North Vietnam

    ho chi minh gets north vietnam under his rule

  • The Vietminh resist. First Indochina War begins.

    First Indochina War begins. (specific date unknown)

  • French are defeated

    French are defeated at Dien Bien Phu after the United States refuses to send air support. The Geneva accords are signed by French and Vietminh, establishing the International Control Commission, deciding that the 17th parallel will be the temporary dividing line between the two, and creating plans for a free election in Vietnam no later than July 1956. Ngo Dinh Diem gains power in South Vietnam.
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