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Lindstrom 1 Nathan W.

Lindstrom Professor Brych English 1A 2012-02-24

Encyclopdia Britannica on the Vietnam War

oward the end of the 19th century, the French conquered Vietnam, and controlled it first as a protectorate, and then later as a In September of 1945, Vietnamese Nationalist leader Ho Chi a guerrilla warfare

possession.

Minh proclaimed its independence, and launched

campaign against the French that ended in the Vietnamese victory at Dien Bien Phu in May of 1954. The country was divided along the 17th parallel of latitude between the communist-dominated north and a U.S.-supported south by an agreement that was signed at Geneva in July of 1954. However, the activities of pro-communist rebels in the South caused the U.S. to intervene in the country, leading to the Second Indochina War, or Vietnam War. After great destruction and loss of life, the war came to a brief halt in 1973, when a cease-fire agreement was signed and U.S. began to withdraw its troops from South Vietnam. The war quickly resumed, and in 1975 the South Vietnamese government collapsed and the two Vietnam halves were reunited as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Lindstrom 2 Works Cited

Indochina Wars. Encyclopdia Britannica. Deluxe Edition. Chicago: Encyclopdia Britannica, 2008.

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