List of Reference Entries
and Documents
FIRST INDOCHINA WAR AND A DIVIDED VIETNAM
Reference Entries
August Revolution
castor, Operation
Cogny, René
de Castries, Christian Marie
Dien Bien Phu, Battle of
Elysée Agreement
Fontainebleau Conference
French Foreign Legion in Indochina
French Indochina, 1860s–1946
Geneva Conference and Geneva Accords
of 1954
Groupement Mobile 100, Destruction of
Ho Chi Minh
Lattre de Tassigny, Jean de
lorraine, Operation
Mendès-France, Pierre
Military Assistance and Advisory Group,
Vietnam
Na San, Battle of
Navarre, Henri Eugène
United States, Involvement in Indochina
through 1954
Viet Minh
Vo Nguyen Giap
Documents
• Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, September 2, 1945
• Ho Chi Minh: Letter to President Harry S. Truman, October 17, 1945
• Ho Chi Minh: Declaration of the Policy of the Provisional Co ali tion Government,
January 1, 1946
• Preliminary Franco–Viet Minh Convention, March 6, 1946 [Excerpts]
• Ho Chi Minh: Letter to Compatriots in Nam Bo, May 31, 1946
• Ho Chi Minh: Reply at Luncheon Given by French Premier Georges Bidault, July 2,
1946
• Ho Chi Minh: Proclamation to the People upon His Return from France after Nego-
tiations, October 23, 1946
• National Security Council Paper No. 64, 1950
• Paper on Military Aid for Indochina by a Working Group in the Department of State,
February 1, 1950 [Excerpts]
• President Harry S. Truman: Statement Announcing Direct U.S. Military Aid to Indo-
china, June 27, 1950
• Ho Chi Minh: Report to the National Assembly, December 1, 1953 [Excerpts]
• Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference on Indochina, July 21, 1954