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Dien Bien Phu
13 Mar–7 May 1954 — Giap’s peasant army hauls artillery up jungle mountains and destroys a French fortress of 15,000. A European empire is beaten in open battle; Geneva partitions Vietnam within weeks.
This is one scene of Chapter 7 — Vietnam in The Cold War, 1945–1991.
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