Dienbienphu

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1. A place in Indochina, now Vietnam, where Vietnamese communists decisively defeated French forces in 1954. The defeat led to the French withdrawal from Indochina. (See Vietnam War.)

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Dienbienphu

Eden describes a meeting in Paris shortly before the fall of Dienbienphu, when Dulles handed a letter offering U.S. armed aid in Indo-China to French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault.

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The Communists had not yet scored their stunning victory at Dienbienphu and their situation was "very grave," says Khrushchev.

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When its 6,200-man garrison came under siege and heavy artillery bombardment from the North Vietnamese in mid-January, some observers saw an ominous similarity to Dienbienphu.

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Pleven had been Defense Minister during Dienbienphu, feared ugly comparisons with the Algerian war.

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From time to time, its crackerjack pilots moonlighted, accepting such missions as dropping French paratroopers into Dienbienphu in 1954.

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