Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
On May 7, 1954, in a valley in northern Vietnam, a European colonial army surrendered. Facing it was the Viet Minh, the Vietnamese independence movement. Dien Bien Phu was more than a French disaster. It was the signal that the colonial age was cracking, in the middle of the Cold War.
How did a former history teacher, General Võ Nguyên Giáp, defeat a modern army? Through logistics, through patience, and by turning the French certainty of superiority against them.
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- 2Indochina at war
- 3The trap in the basin
- 455 days under fire
- 5The end of an empire
Open-book quiz8 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary12 terms explained in a tap.
30 languagesThe same course, from French to Japanese.
