First Indochina War Timeline of Events

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First Indochina War

The First Indochina War was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946, until August 1, 1954, between the French Union's French Far East...

Timeline of Events

1946

12.19.1946

Start of the First Indochina War.

1954

7.21.1954

First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.

10.11.1954

First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.

1955

5.18.1955

Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.