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Various European efforts to establish trading posts in Vietnam failed, but missionaries were allowed to operate for some time until the mandarins began concluding that Christianity (which had succeeded in converting up to a tenth of the population by 1700) was a threat to the Confucian social order since it condemned ancestor worship as ...
South-East Asian theatre of World War II (1941–1945) Allies. United Kingdom of Great Britain; Republic of China; United States of America; Provisional Government of the French Republic (from 1944) Việt Minh (Vietnam Independence League) Free Thai Movement; Chinese Communist Party; Axis. Empire of Japan. Empire of Vietnam; Kingdom of ...
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
221 BC invasion of Vietnam by Qin Shi Huang; 258 BC invasion of Vietnam by Âu Việt tribe led by Thục Phán; 279 BC invasion of Balkans by Gauls; Approximately between 18th–13th century BC invasion of Canaan by Joshua and the Israelites; Approximately between 22nd–21st century BC invasion of Vietnam by Ân tribes.
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, [63] the Vietnam Conflict, [64] [65] and Nam (colloquially 'Nam). In Vietnam it is commonly known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (lit.
Vietnam was absorbed into French Indochina in stages between 1858 and 1887. Vietnamese nationalism grew until World War II, which provided a break in French control. Early Vietnamese resistance centered on the intellectual Phan Bội Châu. Châu looked to Japan, which had modernized and was one of the few Asian nations to successfully resist ...
Both China and Vietnam claimed victory in the war; as Vietnamese troops remained in Cambodia until 1989, it can be said that China was unsuccessful in their goal of dissuading Vietnam from involvement in Cambodia. [5] [6] Sino-Vietnamese border conflicts 1979–1990. After China withdrew from Vietnam in 1979, border conflicts continued to occur.
Starving Vietnamese were dying throughout northern Vietnam in 1945 due to the Japanese seizure of their crops, by the time the Chinese came to disarm the Japanese, Vietnamese corpses were all throughout the streets of Hanoi and had to be cleaned up by students. [9]