North Vietnam
Country in Southeast Asia (1945–1976)
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The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; Vietnamese: Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa – VNDCCH) was a country in Southeast Asia from 1945 to 1976, with sovereignty recognized in July 1954, after which it became commonly known as North Vietnam. A member of the communist Eastern Bloc, it opposed the anti-communist, French-associated State of Vietnam and later its successor state the Western-allied Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). North Vietnam launched a successful military offensive against South Vietnam in 1975 and was formally reunified with the South the following year to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
After the 1940 Japanese invasion of French Indochina—of which the territories now comprising Vietnam were a part—Vietnamese communist revolutionary Hồ Chí Minh established the Việt Minh Front in 1941 to resist the Japanese occupation and achieve independence. The communist-led Viet Minh, cloaked in nationalism, was designed to appeal to a wider population than the Indochinese Communist Party could command.
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Vietnamese monarchy (10th–19th century)
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Trần dynasty
Imperial Vietnamese dynasty (1225–1400)
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International Control Commission
1954–1974 United Nations mission in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long
Historic complex of buildings in Hanoi, Vietnam
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Temple of Literature, Hanoi
Temple dedicated to Confucius
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Battle of Hanoi (1946)
First battle in the First Indochina War
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