The First Indochina War, known alternatively internationally as the French Indochina War, was fought in French Indochina between France and the Viet Minh and their respective allies, from 19 December
Clockwise After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, supporting Laotian troops fall back across the Mekong River into Laos French Marine commandos wade ashore off the Annam coast in July 1950 M24 Chaffee American light tank used by the French in Vietnam Geneva Conference on 21 July 1954 A Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat from Escadrille 1F prepares to land on French aircraft carrier Arromanches operating in the Gulf of Tonkin
June 1945 public ceremony in commemoration of the Yên Bái mutiny
Võ Nguyên Giáp and Ho Chi Minh (1945)
The Ho–Sainteny Agreement, officially the Accords between France and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, known in Vietnamese as Hiệp định sơ bộ Pháp–Việt and in French as Convention préliminaire, was
General Leclerc, leader of French army in Indochina, toasts with Hồ Chí Minh, in the presence of Jean Sainteny, 18 March 1946.
French residents of Indochina burst with joy at the return of French troops to Hanoi on 18 March 1946.
First day of the Fontainebleau Conference, July 6, 1946.
Vietnamese former emperor Bảo Đại and the French High Commissioner in Indochina Léon Pignon exchanged letters at City Hall in Saigon on 14 June 1949, leading to the Élysée Accords taking effect.