Modern Era · Southeast Asia · War
1946
Vietnam War against France begins
1946
After the French tried to reclaim Indochina at the end of World War II, Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh rose against them. The First Indochina War would last eight years and end at Dien Bien Phu. The second Indochina War would draw in the Americans. Thirty years of war over a narrow strip of Southeast Asia had begun.
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