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Complete liberation for North Vietnam

The Vietnamese victory in the 1953-1954 Winter-Spring campaign, in which its climax was the Dien Bien Phu Campaign-"a world-shaking victory", forced the French government to sum the Geneva Agreements restoring peace in Indochina.

According to the Geneva Agreements, the resistance forces against the French colonialists would regroup to the North while the French withdrew then troops out of North Viet Nam. Viet Nam was temporarily divided into two regions at the 17th Parallel across Ben Hai river. On May 1, 1955, the Party Central Committee, the Government and President Ho Chi Minh returned to Ha Noi. The Vietnamese revolution turned to a new phase.

Civilians of Hanoi greeting triumphant soldiers

Civilians of Ha Noi welcoming the Party Central Committee, the Government and President Ho Chi Minh returning to the city, January 1, 1955

General Vo Nguyen Giap visiting Nguyet Xa village, Thai Binh province, an exemplary fighting village in the Northern Delta during the French resistance, 1955

President Ho Chi Minh, General Secretary of the Party Central Committee Truong Chinh and General Vo Nguyen Giap in the Second National Congress of Heroes and Emulation Fighters, August 31, 1955

President Ho Chi Minh chaired the fifteenth Plenum of the Party Central Committee (expanded) in January 1959 to approve guidance for uprisings to seize power in South Vietnam.
From right to left: President Ho Chi Minh, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee Le Duan and General Vo Nguyen Giap

President Ho Chi Minh, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong and General Vo Nguyen Giap attending the Physical Training and Sports Festival of the People’s Armed Forces at the Army Club in Ha Noi, 1959

President Ho Chi Minh, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong and Chairman of People’s Committee of Ha Noi city Tran Duy Hung visiting General Vo Nguyen Giap’s family

Source: "Commander-in-chief General Vo Nguyen Giap" Book

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