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The first Vietnam War

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The American Revolution in the Twenty-First Century

Visely: The war elephant that was able to bring down the french army in set peace battle of world war one type in 19 54. But they were not able to unify the viet nam, to retake all of the vietNam which hochi ming had declared briefly independent. So a military, a political revolution, quite in the history of decolonization in the twentieth century. And this brings in the americans who attach increasing importance to indo china as one of the dominoes. They apply pressure and what comes out of the negotiations at geneva is the division of vietnam into two halves.

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