French Involvement In Vietnam
After World War II the Japanese proclaimed the independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Doing this, they hoped that they could keep it from the French getting back in charge of them. The next year, 1946, Ho Chi Minh let the French make Vietnam an autonomous state that was within the French Union. The French thought that they could get more from the Japanese, ever since Ho Chi Minh accepted their proposal. The French tried to reestablish colonial rule, but fighting broke out instead. By 1949, Vietnam was fighting an effective, but the irregular war against France, which had China’s military and economic assistance("French Defeated at Dien Bien Phu."). France also gained aid from the United States. Years later, in 1954, the France and Vietnam
signed The Geneva Peace Accords. Vietnam’s Delegates agreed to the temporary partition at the seventeenth parallel, and allowed the French from a “face-saving” defeat to Vietnam, at the Geneva Conference. After national elections, in 1956, to reunify the country, the seventeenth parallel, would be gone. Instead of that, the United State’s secretary, John Foster Dulles thought the Geneva Accords gave Vietnam’s communist party too much power.
signed The Geneva Peace Accords. Vietnam’s Delegates agreed to the temporary partition at the seventeenth parallel, and allowed the French from a “face-saving” defeat to Vietnam, at the Geneva Conference. After national elections, in 1956, to reunify the country, the seventeenth parallel, would be gone. Instead of that, the United State’s secretary, John Foster Dulles thought the Geneva Accords gave Vietnam’s communist party too much power.