The State Department tacitly rejected the neutral Laos idea after the Geneva conference of 1954, and last year Washington backed the rightist coup that ousted neutral Premier Souvanna Phouma.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

The late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles considered the 1954 Geneva agreement a specimen of appeasement, saw that resolution would be needed to keep it from becoming a calamity for the West.

* 1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.

* International Control Commission, which oversaw the 1954 Geneva Accords ending the First Indochina War

* 1954 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.

According to Democratic Kampuchea's version of party history, the Viet Minh's failure to negotiate a political role for the KPRP at the 1954 Geneva Conference represented a betrayal of the Cambodian movement, which still controlled large areas of the countryside and which commanded at least 5, 000 armed men.

Laos gained full independence following the French defeat by the Vietnamese communists and the subsequent Geneva peace conference in 1954.

At the Geneva Conference of 1954 France and the Communists agreed to divide Vietnam and hold elections in 1956.

Established in 1954, the organization is based in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco – Swiss border, () and has 20 European member states.

* Khmer Viet Minh Cambodian communists who lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference.

After the war, the 1954 Geneva conference failed to adopt a solution for a unified Korea.

He arrived in Indochina after the 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu, which had been lost by France and which prompted prime minister Pierre Mendès France to put an end to the war at the Geneva Conference.

Advocating peaceful coexistence with the West after the stalemated Korean War, he participated in the 1954 Geneva Conference and helped orchestrate Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China.

Following the Geneva Accord of 1954, the Viet Minh became the government of North Vietnam, although the Bảo Đại government continued to rule in South Vietnam.

On April 27, 1954, the Geneva Conference produced the Geneva Agreements ; supporting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Indochina, granting it independence from France, declaring the cessation of hostilities and foreign involvement in internal Indochina affairs, delineating northern and southern zones into which opposing troops were to withdraw, they mandated unification on the basis of internationally supervised free elections to be held in July 1956.

Wilson consistently avoided any commitment of British forces, giving as reasons British military commitments to the Malayan Emergency and British co-chairmanship of the 1954 Geneva Conference which agreed the cessation of hostilities and internationally supervised elections in Vietnam.

In the wake of the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result of the 1954 Geneva Accords, Diệm led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam.

Realising Diệm's popularity among American policymakers, he chose Diệm's youngest brother Ngô Đình Luyện, who was studying in Europe at the time, to be part of his delegation at the 1954 Geneva Conference to determine the future of Indochina.

Under the 1954 Geneva Accords, Vietnam was to undergo elections in 1956 to reunify the country.

The terms South Vietnam and North Vietnam became common usage in 1954 at the time of the Geneva Conference, which partitioned Vietnam into Viet-Minh and French zones at the 17th parallel.

In 1954, France and the Việt Cong agreed at the Geneva Conference that the State of Vietnam would rule the territory south of the 17th parallel, pending unification on the basis of supervised elections in 1956.

Although the United States attended the Geneva Conference ( 1954 ), which was intended to end hostilities between France and the Vietnamese at the end of the First Indochina War, it refused to sign the Geneva Accords ( 1954 ).

Since conference and of the Food and Agriculture Organization's publication World Festival of Trees, and a resolution of the United Nations in 1954: " The Conference, recognising the need of arousing mass consciousness of the aesthetic, physical and economic value of trees, recommends a World Festival of Trees to be celebrated annually in each member country on a date suited to local conditions "; it has been adopted by the Netherlands.

The ephemeris second ( defined as 1 / 86400 of a mean solar day ) was made one of the original base units of the modern metric system, or International System of Units ( SI ), at the 10th General Conference on Weights and Measures ( CGPM ) in 1954.

Khmer Viet Minh were the 3, 000 to 5, 000 Cambodian communist cadres, left-wing members of the Khmer Issarak movement regrouped in the United Issarak Front after 1950, most of whom lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference.

In May 1954, he led the delegation of the Ho Chi Minh government to the Geneva Conference.

He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and it is widely believed that he refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954.

* 1954 U. S. Amateur, Ohio Amateur, All-American Amateur, Atlantic Coast Conference Championship, Bill Waite Memorial

In 1954 the National Order of the Arrow Conference was held at the University of Wyoming.

In 1954, the UN appointed him President of the Commission in charge of elaborating the report of the Conference of Chancellors held in Rio de Janeiro.

The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory ( 2011 )

* Vietnam: The demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam was established in April 1954 as a result of the Geneva Conference ending the war between the Viet Minh and the French.

On March 13, 1954, Milwaukee Braves left fielder Bobby Thomson fractured his ankle while sliding into second base during a spring training game.

Signing the NATO treaty in Paris, 1954 ( Adenauer at the left )

She edited and dubbed what elements were left and Tiefland premiered on February 11, 1954 in Stuttgart, however, it was denied entry into the Cannes Film Festival.

On his return to Britain in 1954, he found he faced hostility for having left the Goons to the extent that his picture had been excised from early pictures and wasn't replaced until Bentine complained to DG Michael Checkland in the 1990s.

" ( The Browns had left St. Louis after the 1954 season to become the Baltimore Orioles.

French rule ended in Algeria in 1958, Vietnam left French Indo-china in 1954.

* On 9 September 1954 an earthquake centered on the city of Orléansville, Algeria killed 1, 500 and left thousands homeless.

However, after the troops had left in 1954 and the Egyptians nationalised the Canal in 1956, Powell opposed the British attempts to retake the Canal in the Suez Crisis because he thought the British no longer had the resources to be a world power.

In 1954 he and his wife left their two children ( Diana aged 11 and Daniel aged 10 ) behind with Piazzolla's parents and travelled to Paris.

By the end of 1954, nearly 6, 000 soldiers had left Burma and Li Mi declared his army disbanded.

When the French left Vietnam in 1954, all airborne battalions were upgraded to regiments over the next two years.

Dr. George MacPherson Docherty ( left ) and President Eisenhower ( second from left ) on the morning of February 7, 1954, at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church

More than 293, 000 Vietnamese refugees left the newly created communist North Vietnam during Operation Passage to Freedom ( October 1954 ).

Another depicted the rear end of a 1954 Beetle ( the year Volkswagen was established in Mexico ) in the left side of the ad, reading " Erase una vez ..." ( Once upon a time ...) and the last 2003 Beetle in the right side, reading " Fin " ( The end ).

In 1954, the museum left its original location and moved to a small structure behind the Museum of Modern Art.

The House in the Middle was an American 1954 short documentary film produced by the Federal Civil Defense Administration and the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau, which attempted to show that a clean, freshly painted house ( the middle house ) is more likely to survive a nuclear attack than its poorly maintained counterparts ( the right and left houses ).

In 1954, he left Harvard for the U. S. Marine Corps.

Following the defeat at the battle of Dien Bien Phu and the 1954 Geneva Accords the French left Hanoi and the prison came under the authority of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Phillips suggested changes to the lyrics (" Go, cat, go ") and the band changed the end of the song to a " boogie vamp ". On Ozark Jubilee Presley left Sun for a larger opportunity with RCA in November, and on December 19, 1955, Phillips, who had begun recording Perkins in late 1954, told Perkins, " Carl Perkins, you're my rockabilly cat now.

* Ed Furgol, winner of 1954 US Open at Baltusrol, champion golfer who overcame an unbending left arm from a broken elbow at age 12

The island was nearly wiped out by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 ; only five buildings were left standing on Long Beach in the hurricane's wake.

After disagreements in 1954 Colyer left to form a new outfit, and the band became Chris Barber's Jazz Band.

Thereafter, sanatorium treatment began to lose its importance, being phased out completely by 1954, when the sanatorium's last patient, baseball player Larry Doyle, left.