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Vietnam: Historical background
Vietnam has strong historical connections to China and India and has been ruled by both China and France. After turmoil and wars in the twentieth century, Vietnam embarked on a program of reform that has opened relations with the United States.
By Lorraine Aragon.
French Indochina
In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 1
The current national borders of Southeast Asia were not established until after World War II. What is now northern Vietnam was ruled by China for more than a thousand years, between the second century BCE and...
By Lorraine Aragon.
National borders
In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 6
Some Vietnamese Communists today point to early anti-French communist groups that emerged in North Vietnam in the 1930s, but no serious nationalist or communist movements emerged before World War II. The Japanese invaded French Indochina in 1940 and, as everywhere,...
Cambodia: A timeline
Major events and eras in the history of what is now Cambodia from the beginning of the Common Era to the present.
Vietnam: A timeline
Major events and eras in the history of what is now Vietnam from the first millennium BCE to the present.
Map of Indo-China, showing proposed Burma-Siam-China Railway (1886)
Map of Indo-China, showing proposed Burma-Siam-China Railway (1886)
Map shows colonial borders of Vietnam (Anam), Siam, Burma, Cambodia, and other countries and colonies as they existed in 1886.
Format: image/map
French colonization and Vietnam wars
Photographs and text tell the story of Vietnam under French colonial rule, its experience during twentieth-century wars with France and the United States, and its recent liberalization.
Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
Map of Indochina
Map of Indochina
A relief map of Indochina showing international boundaries, capitals of nations, roads, and railroads. From the Central Intelligence Agency.
Format: image/map