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Why did Vietnam go through thirty years of war after the second world war?

  • UPSC 2009
  • Liberation from Colonial Rule

Vietnam's passage from the end of the Second World War to national unification in 1975 was marked by almost unbroken conflict — not one war but two continuous ones sharing a single root cause.

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  • French Refusal to Decolonize (1945–46)
  • The First Indochina War and Its Cold War Overlay (1946–54)
  • The Geneva Accords and the Failure of Reunification (1954–56)
  • Diem's Repression and the Collapse of the South (1955–63)
  • American Escalation and Withdrawal (1961–75)

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