History of the War in Vietnam

reassumed its position as a colonial power in Southeast Asia.Å  4.ls1

1J. Buttinger, Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled, Vol. 1 (New ì

York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1967), 183.

Soon thereafter, however, France found itself embroiled in a ì

bitter war in Vietnam, then a part of French Indo-China, were one ì

element of the Vietnamese population was seeking political ì

independence for the country from France. Over the ensuing ì

decade, the physical, monetary, and human losses suffered by both ì

France and the Vietnamese were enormous.ì

The French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954 led directly ì

to the Geneva Conference in that same year in which accords were ì

reached that marked the exit of France from Southeast Asia, ì

placed the United States squarely in the position as the major ì

Western presence in Southeast Asia, and moved the long-running ì

war in Vietnam into a new phase.ô 
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2J. Buttinger, Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled, Vol. 2 (New ì

York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1967), 834-845.

ô  This study examined the Geneva ì

Accords of 1954 that were reached in the Geneva Conference called ì

to deal with the Vietnam question. The positions of the French, ì

who were seeking a graceful exit from Southeast Asia by this ì

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