Vietnam Cold War

By EimearBrennan

  • Japan Occupies French Indochina

    During WW2, the French colony is subject to Japanese occupation. The colony is comprised of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

  • Vietnam Declares Independence

    Ho Chi Minh declares an independent Vietnam after the fall of Japan.

  • Start of First Indochina War

    South Vietnam is in French control, post WW2, whilst Ho Chi Minh remains in the North.
  • Period: to

    First French Indochina War

  • Start of Land Reform N.V

  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    The French surrender to Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam after a brutal loss in Dien Bien Phu.

  • Partition of Vietnam across the 17th Parallel

    Partition was to lat until elections in 1956, and was decided at the Geneva Accords.

  • Diem Appointed as PM

  • Diem Refuses to hold Elections

    Claimed that conditions were not yet right, and was supported in this by the USA.

  • Ho Chi Minh Apology for Land Reform

  • 15th Plenum of the VWP

    The use of revolutionary violence is approved in Vietnam by the communists, leading to the establishment if the NLF

  • Creation of the NLF

  • Strategic Hamlet Programme Begins