HIST2475 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 18 Months
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Convened in part of determining the political future of indochina that went through 8 years of war between the french and the viet minh. On july 20, 1954 truce was signed and vietnam is split. Representatives of south vietnam refuse to sign it. May 7, 1954 last french defenders of the garrison surrender at dien bien. Great britain was much more concerned with dealing with the soviet union. Less than 24 hours after this the indochina phase of the geneva. Eisenhower and churchill were friends but churchill was old and showing signs of senility so most of his work was taken care of by foreign secretary. The viet minh are on the verge of seizing all of vietnam, anyway: (cid:498)you don"t win at the conference table what you"ve just lost on the battlefield(cid:499) The us came into the geneva conference with less understanding of its and communist china than helping france with colonizing vietnam.
