What happened on May 7,1954 at a place called Dien Bien Phu?

Question

French defeat
American defeat
French victory
South Vietnamese victory

Answer 1

french defeat, they lost vietnam.

Answer 2

-The battle of Dien Bien Phu lasted from March until early May 1954 ... soldiers are led to a camp 435 miles (700 km) north of Dien Bien Phu May 7, 1954
-The Viet Minh, as the insurgents were called, used guerrilla tactics that the French found difficult to ... Dien Bien Phu fell to the Viet Minh on May 7, 1954
-The French disposition at Dien Bien Phu, as of March 1954. ..... On May 7, Giap ordered an all out attack against the remaining French units.
-So it came down to Dien Bien Phu, May 7, 1954. After the dust cleared, ... on Hanoi radio - three or four times a day - about a place called Dien Bien Phu
-Giap had in place in January 1954 more than 200 heavy artillery pieces, .... Dien Bien Phu fell on May 7, 1954, and the defeated French left
-The attack of Dien Bien Phu took place on the evening of Saturday March 13, 1954.

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Answer 3

French Defeat

Answer 4

The French Foreign Legion made their last stand against the Viet Minh (Vietnamese nationalists) at Dien Bien Phu. France requested the USA to airlift supplies into their troops but the USA refused, since the American policy at the time was anti-colonial and pro-independent.

As a result, the entire French garrison was slaughtered and Vietnam declared independence. The Viet Minh later became the Viet Cong (Communist rather than nationalist)
and eventually the civil unrest they began led to the Vietnam war.

Answer 5

French Defeat

The following year (1954), the important Battle of Dien Bien Phu was fought between the Việt Minh (led by Vo Nguyen Giap and backed by China), and the United States-backed French Union (led by General Navarre, successor to General Raoul Salan). The siege of the French garrison lasted fifty-seven days, from 5:30PM March 13th to 5:30PM May 7th, 1954. The southern outpost or firebase of the camp, Isabelle, did not follow the cease-fire order and fought until the next day at 01:00AM; a few hours before the long-scheduled Geneva Meeting's Indochina conference involving the United States, the United Kingdom, the French Union and the Soviet Union.

The battle was significant beyond the valleys of Dien Bien Phu. Vo Nguyen Giap's victory ended major French involvement in Indochina and led to the accords which partitioned Vietnam into North and South. Eventually, these conditions inspired American involvement in the Vietnam War. The battle of Điện Biên Phủ is described by historians as "the first time that a non-European colonial independence movement had evolved through all the stages from guerrilla bands to a conventionally organized and equipped army able to defeat a modern Western occupier in pitched battle."[3]

The Western fear of a Communist extension in Southeast Asia, named the Domino Theory by Dwight D. Eisenhower during the Dien Bien Phu siege and the departure of the French from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, was a factor leading to the direct American intervention in South Vietnam.

Answer 6

Diem Bien Phu is in Vietnam, surrounded on all sides by hills and jungle. A french general assumed it was impregnable and he cleared a large area off and built an airport and garrison. of about a 1000 men. The vietnamese, under cover of the tall folliage hauled huge cannons up the hills overlooking the garrison and bombarded them. The french lost about 500 men and sensibly pulled out of the country. The Americans got into the fray and also retreated later on..

Answer 7

AN attempt by the French forces in Indochina to decisively defeat the Viet Minh forces failed when the Viet Minh turned the table on the French. Teh result was a defeat so massive that the French were eventually forced to abandon their claims to Viet Nam

Answer 8

French defeat

Answer 9

French defeat

Answer 10

French defeat

Answer 11

French defeat. Dein Bein Phu was the last French fort to fall when the people of what was called French Indo-China and would later become Vietnam, rebelled against French rule. Ho Chi Minh had for decades and I mean decades asked the U.S. to help them gain their independence from France. America became involved when Ho Chi Minh became communist (he was a nationalist when he was lobbying for help from the U.S. and became communist when the Soviet Union started to back them) because we wanted to stop the spread of communism.