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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 ...
Vietnamese civilians were robbed, raped and killed by French soldiers in Saigon when they came back in August 1945. [76] Vietnamese women were also raped in north Vietnam by the French like in Bảo Hà, Bảo Yên District, Lào Cai province and Phu Lu, which caused 400 Vietnamese who were trained by the French to defect on 20 June 1948 ...
From 1960, the North Vietnamese government went to war with the Republic of Vietnam via its proxy the Viet Cong, in an attempt to annex South Vietnam and reunify Vietnam under a communist party. [60] North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces and supplies were sent along the Ho Chi Minh trail.
Both North and South considered themselves the only legitimate representative of all of Vietnam. Communist army of the North defeated the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces of the South, which sought to maintain South Vietnamese independence from communism with the direct support of the foreign military (mainly the U.S.). The U.S. military ...
After the defeat of the French Union in the First Indochina War that began in 1946, Vietnam gained independence in the 1954 Geneva Conference but was divided into two parts at the 17th parallel: the Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh, took control of North Vietnam, while the US assumed financial and military support for South Vietnam, led by Ngo ...
On September 2, 1945, at Duc Anh Ba Đình Square, Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Viet Minh organization, declared Vietnam's independence under the new name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN) in a speech that invoked the United States Declaration of Independence and the French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the ...
Sino-Vietnamese conflicts (1945–1946) or Chinese Kuomintang occupation of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Hoa quân nhập Việt), (Chinese: 華軍入越) were a series of clashes between the Republic of China and the communist Viet Minh following the August Revolution.
On 20 May 1955, French Union forces withdrew from Saigon to a coastal base and on 28 April 1956, the last French forces left Vietnam. [4]: 650 North Vietnam violated the Geneva Accords by failing to withdraw all Viet Minh troops from South Vietnam, stifling the movement of North Vietnamese refugees, and conducting a military buildup that more ...