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On 18 February 1954, at the Berlin Conference, participants agreed that "the problem of restoring peace in Indochina will also be discussed at the Conference [on the Korean question] to which representatives of the United States, France, the United Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Chinese People's Republic and other interested states will be invited."
The Geneva Conference in 1954 which divided Vietnam into two provisional states: North Vietnam and South Vietnam. 17 July The Battle of Chu Dreh Pass , takes place within the Central Highlands of French Indochina .
The 1954 to 1959 phase of the Vietnam War was the era of the two nations. Coming after the First Indochina War, this period resulted in the military defeat of the French, a 1954 Geneva meeting that partitioned Vietnam into North and South, and the French withdrawal from Vietnam (see First Indochina War), leaving the Republic of Vietnam regime fighting a communist insurgency with USA aid.
The 1954 Geneva Conference. At the 1954 Geneva Conference, Vietnam was temporarily partitioned at the 17th parallel. Ho Chi Minh wished to continue war in the south, but was restrained by Chinese allies who convinced him he could win control by electoral means.
The UK co-chaired the 1954 Geneva Conference with the Soviet Union, overseeing the creation of the sovereign states of North Vietnam and South Vietnam in the final stages of the First Indochina War. Prior to the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution , the United Kingdom began providing support to the South Vietnamese government in the form of advice ...
The Geneva Conference opened on 8 May 1954, [110] the day after the surrender of the garrison. The resulting agreement in July partitioned Vietnam into two zones: communist North Vietnam and the State of Vietnam, which opposed the agreement, [111] to the south.
After the Geneva Conference of 1954, as well as becoming fully independent with its departure from the French Union, the State of Vietnam became territorially confined to those lands of Vietnam south of the 17th parallel, and as such became commonly known as Republic of Vietnam. Communist forces entered Hanoi on 10 October 1954.
Paris Accords, the agreements reached at the end of the London and Paris Conferences in 1954 concerning the post-war status of Germany. [For parallel conferences for peace in Korea and in Indochina, see Berlin Conference (1954) and 1954 Geneva Conference] Paris Peace Accords, in 1973, ending United States involvement in the Vietnam War