Vietnam was a French colony when communist-led rebels defeated French troops at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. At that point, the country was divided between north and south, with communists in ...

Saigon is not an ancient city. Around the same time the first British colonies were being established on the East Coast of what would be the United States, a village originally called Gia Dinh was ...

Those who remained unnamed would be laid to rest in a cemetery for soldiers who lost their lives in the 1946-1954 Indochina war. Vietnam's victory over the French in Dien Bien Phu led to the ...

However, the communist Viet Minh forces trapped the soldiers inside the garrison ... The Geneva Agreement spelt the end of French control of Vietnam, and the start of a major headache for the ...