The end of the First Indochina War : a global history /
End of the 1st Indochina War
James Waite.
- x, 299 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
- Routledge studies on history and globalization ; 3 .
- Routledge studies on history and globalization ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Escalation and negotiation, March 1953-May 1954 -- "More important than Korea": background to negotiation -- Defeat in Vietnam? The Battle for Dien Bien Phu -- The Vietnamese confront the Cold War -- Before Geneva: the foundations of western disunity -- In search of a "lesser evil": partition as an idea -- United action averted -- The Geneva Conference on Indochina, May-July 1954 -- The Geneva Conference: the Bidault Phase -- Gouverner, c'est choisir -- The Geneva Conference: the Mend's-France Phase -- The global legacy, July 1954-July 1956 -- Making partition permanent -- Global implications -- Epilogue: "Our offspring.".
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Geneva Conference (1954)
Indochinese War, 1946-1954--Peace Indochinese War, 1946-1954--Diplomatic history World politics--1945-1955