1. Australia and the Vietnam War
... Dien Phu had broken French will to continue and on 20 July 1954 hostilities were ended after negotiations at Geneva. VIETNAM AFTER THE FIRST INDO-CHINESE WAR The Geneva agreements of 1954, which divided Vietnam along 17th parallel (later known as the Demilitarised Zone or DMZ), provided for a regrouping period to permit refugees to move north or south according to their persuasion. As many ... Vietnamese Government, Australia was to send a team of 30 military instructors to Vietnam "to assist in the training of ground forces of South Vietnam." This passed with little attention by the me...
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