
The first Vietnam war
Histoire, Asie (histoire)
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Résumé
Immediately after the Japanese surrender at the end of the Second World War, Saigon was occupied by British forces directed from Mountbatten's South East Asia Command. These forces became the first of a Western nation to clash with a Communist-led… revolution in Asia, and by thwarting the Viet Minh's desperate attempts to seize power, made it impossible for South Vietnam to hold out when North Vietnam fell to the Communists in 1954. 1985.