Vietnam Victory in Dien Bien Phu 07/05/1954

[youtube featured="1" width="600" height="450" rel="0" info="0" src="-V7NhxhEXpY"/]In northwest Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh forces decisively defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu, a French stronghold besieged by the Vietnamese communists for 57 days.

The Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu signaled the end of French colonial influence in Indochina and cleared the way for the division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel at the conference of Geneva.