Historical Events tagged with "geneva accords"
Turns out history loves a label—battles, breakthroughs, and the occasional disaster, all neatly tagged for your browsing pleasure. Because sometimes you just need every weird invention in one place.
Mass Evacuation from North to South Vietnam
Operation Passage to Freedom was a significant evacuation effort that took place following the First Indochina War, facilitating the transition of over 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers, and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist-controlled North Vietnam to the southern region. This operation was a response to the political turmoil and uncertainty surrounding the Geneva Accords, which partitioned Vietnam into North and South at the 17th parallel. The operation officially concluded on May 18, 1955, marking the end of a large-scale migration amidst fears of persecution and violence from the new communist regime.
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