France, which also lost a war in Vietnam, sent a minister to last year's celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the end of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when French colonial rule collapsed.

In 1921, after Germany failed to make its first war reparation payment, French troops occupied Dusseldorf and other towns on the Ruhr River in Germany's industrial heartland.. In 1943, Allied ...

Causes of Vietnam War. 1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial empire French Indochina. 1946 ...

Under French colonial rule, Vietnam was not an independent state, but part of Indochina. The emotional recounts of the journey of a nation that experienced utopias, conflicts, and the horrors of the ...

Explore the roots of the Vietnam War in "Conflict in the Jungle: The Vietnam War, Part 1." From Ho Chi Minh's early activism to the pivotal events of 1968, this article delves deep into a complex ...

HANOI, Vietnam >> French President Emmanuel Macron played down today an incident in which his wife, Brigitte, pushed him in the face as the couple arrived in Vietnam to begin a tour of Southeast Asia.

For the people of Vietnam, it would be their second Indochina war, coming eleven years after the Viet Minh’s defeat of the French colonial army and the creation of North and South Vietnam ...

Causes of Vietnam War. 1883-1945 – Cochin-China, southern Vietnam, and Annam and Tonkin, central and northern Vietnam, along with Cambodia and Laos make up colonial empire French Indochina. 1946 ...

On March 8, 1965, about 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in Da Nang, South Vietnam. On March 8, 1965, about 3,500 U.S. Marines ... French troops occupied Dusseldorf and other towns on the Ruhr River in ...