Individual #Dien_Bien_Phu the French military base fell after a 56-day siege by Vietnam troops; ended the involvement of France in Indochina in 1954
instance of: #siege
part of: #Vietnam__Socialist_Republic_of_Vietnam__Viet_Nam__Annam a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945
part of: #Indochina__Indochinese_peninsula a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam
part of: #Southeast_Asia a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore
part of: #Asia the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
part of: #Eurasia the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
part of: #eastern_hemisphere__easternhemisphere__orient the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia
part of: #northern_hemisphere the hemisphere north of the equator
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