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Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American takes place during this war. In 2011, Vietnamese software developer Emobi Games released a first-person-shooter called 7554. Named after the date 07-05-54 (7 May 1954) which marks the end of the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu, it commemorates the First Indochina War from the Vietnamese point of view.
The Third Indochina War was a period of prolonged conflict following the Second Indochina War. The conflict began in 1975 and lasted until the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements on 23 October 1991, in which several wars were fought: The Cambodian–Vietnamese War began when Vietnam invaded Cambodia and deposed the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. The war ...
Champa was made a tributary state of Vietnam in 1312, but ten years later they regained independence and eventually waged a 30-years long war against the Vietnamese, in order to regain these lands and encouraged by the decline of Đại Việt in the course of the 14th century.
At the onset of World War I, Vietnam, nominally under the Nguyễn dynasty, was under French protectorate and part of French Indochina. While seeking to maximize the use of Indochina's natural resources and manpower to fight the war, France cracked down all Vietnamese patriotic movements. [1] Many Vietnamese fought later in the conflict.
The assault on Phú Yên is notable as a tank company of Mobile Group 1 discovered two Molotova trucks manufactured and supplied by the Soviet Union. This was the first proof of Soviet military assistance to the Viet Minh and by the end of the Indochina War, close to 800 Molotovas would be delivered to the Viet Minh. [2]: 94
Various names have been applied and have shifted over time, though Vietnam War is the most commonly used title in English. It has been called the Second Indochina War since it spread to Laos and Cambodia, [62] the Vietnam Conflict, [63] [64] and Nam (colloquially 'Nam). In Vietnam it is commonly known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (lit.
Trình Minh Thế (1920 [1] – 3 May 1955) was a Vietnamese nationalist and Cao Dai military leader during the end of the First Indochina War and the beginning of the Vietnam War. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Early life
Vietnam: A New History. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-09436-3. Ivarsson, Søren (2008). Creating Laos: The Making of a Lao Space Between Indochina and Siam, 1860-1945. NIAS monographs. Copenhagen: NIAS Press. ISBN 978-87-7694-023-2. Keith, Charles (2012). Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation. From Indochina to Vietnam.