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  2. War in Vietnam (1945–1946) - Wikipedia

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    The 1945–1946 War in Vietnam, codenamed Operation Masterdom [4] by the British, and also known as the Southern Resistance War (Vietnamese: Nam Bộ kháng chiến) [5] [6] by the Vietnamese, was a post–World War II armed conflict involving a largely British-Indian and French task force and Japanese troops from the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, versus the Vietnamese communist movement ...

  3. First Indochina War - Wikipedia

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    The war gradually escalated into the Second Indochina War, more commonly known as the Vietnam War in the West and the American War in Vietnam. Effect on French colonies The Viet Minh victory in the war had an inspirational effect to independence movements in various French colonies worldwide, most notably the FLN in Algeria.

  4. Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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    The accords were broken almost immediately and fighting continued until the 1975 spring offensive and fall of Saigon to the PAVN, marking the war's end. North and South Vietnam were reunified in 1976. The war exacted an enormous human cost: estimates of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed range from 970,000 to 3 million.

  5. United Kingdom and the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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    [4] [16] [17] The British Consul-General in North Vietnam between 1967 and 1969 was Brian Stewart, a senior member of MI6. [16] The Wilson government made efforts to mediate a peace between the US and North Vietnam in 1967. During the four-day Tet truce in February 1967, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin visited the UK. Wilson met with Kosygin and ...

  6. Catherine Leroy - Wikipedia

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    Catherine Leroy (August 27, 1944 - July 8, 2006) was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer, whose stark images of battle illustrated the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications. [1]

  7. Battle of Dien Bien Phu - Wikipedia

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    Captured French soldiers from Dien Bien Phu, escorted by Vietnamese troops, walk to a prisoner-of-war camp On 8 May, the Viet Minh counted 11,721 prisoners, of whom 4,436 were wounded. [ 10 ] This was the greatest number the Viet Minh had ever captured, amounting to one-third of the total captured during the entire war.

  8. Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1945-1946) - Wikipedia

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    On 21 August 1945, General Lu Han's 200,000 Chinese soldiers occupied north Vietnam. 90,000 arrived by October, the 62nd army came on 26 September to Nam Định and Haiphong. Lạng Sơn and Cao Bằng were occupied by the Guangxi 62nd army corps and the Red River Delta region and Lai Cai were occupied by a column from Yunnan .

  9. Army of the Republic of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    The Case–Church Amendment had effectively nullified the Paris Peace Accords, and as a result the United States had cut aid to South Vietnam drastically in 1974, just months before the final enemy offensive, allowing North Vietnam to invade South Vietnam without fear of U.S. military action. As a result, only a little fuel and ammunition were ...