The 1954 Geneva Conference - a meeting of leaders from South Korea, North Korea, The People's Republic of China, the USSR, and the USA to discuss the dismantling of French Indochina (apr 26, 1954 – jul 20, 1954)
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"After Ho Chi Minh’s victory over the French in 1954, they together with Americans, the British, the Russians and the Chinese Communists, had agreed at Geneva that the country should be partitioned at the 17th parallel. Ho then established a communist stated in the north, while the Americans took over the search for an anti-communist alternative in the South. They finally settled, in 1955, on Ngo Dinh Diem, an exile untainted by cooperation with France whose Catholicism, they expected, would make him a reliable ally" (Gaddis 2006 p. 132)Added to timeline:
Date:
apr 26, 1954
jul 20, 1954
~ 2 months and 25 days