Geneva Accords
Indochina peace treaty
The Geneva Accords are international agreements signed in Geneva, Switzerland.
The term most often refers to the 1954 agreements ending French colonial rule in Indochina, which temporarily divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel and set the stage for the Vietnam War.
The 1988 Geneva Accords addressed Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
- IndochinaSoutheast Asian peninsula region
- DecolonizationEnding foreign imperial rule
- Ho Chi MinhVietnamese nationalist leader
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- Viet MinhVietnamese independence coalition
North Vietnam · partition · divided nation · South Vietnam · Cambodia · Laos · Southeast Asia · Zhou Enlai · colonial powers · reunification · Eisenhower · elections · withdrawal · demilitarized · France · peacekeeping · treaty · sovereignty
- Indochina PoliticsCommunist Party, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam War, Politburo, one-party state
- Peace TreatiesTreaty of Versailles, Treaty of Paris, Versailles Treaty, peace accord, Treaty of Westphalia
- Postwar AsiaKorean War, Vietnam War, Chinese Revolution, Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square
- Soviet-Afghan WarSoviet invasion, mujahideen, Kabul, Red Army, Soviet troops
- French IndochinaIndochina, Saigon, Tonkin, Hanoi, Tonkinese
- Laos historyFrench Indochina, independence movement, French colonialism, French rule, colonial era
Geneva AccordsTet Offensive
Coordinated 1968 guerrilla assault
Fall of Saigon · national unity · domino theory · Paris Peace Accords · Vietnamization
Geneva AccordsAmerican intervention
Foreign policy through force
neo-colonialism · imperial expansion · military occupation · domino theory · containment policy