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.

During World War II, the United States had supported the Viet Minh in resistance against the Japanese ; the group had been in control of the countryside since the French gave way in March 1945.

This gave the Viet Minh the opportunity to march south to reunify the country by force.

The president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem began to push the U. S. Military Advisory Group in Vietnam and the White House to begin crop destruction in September 1961, but it was not until October 1962 when the White House gave approval for limited testing of Agent Blue against crops in an area believed to be controlled by the Viet Cong.

" A road in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam was called the Mendel Rivers Parkway and the soldiers gave Rivers a captured Viet Cong carbine that he prominently displayed in his office.

In contrast the communist history of Dong Nai Province published in 1986 gave little attention to the battle, but claimed to have "... eliminated 500 Australians and destroyed 21 tanks ...", while Viet Cong and North Vietnamese losses were not recorded.

The political instability in Saigon gave North Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi an impetus to step up their military campaign in the south, because they believed the South Vietnamese government were able to survive because they still had a strong military to combat the growing influence of the Viet Cong.

The PBR sailors gave chase and soon found themselves in a beehive of enemy activity as Viet Cong guerrillas opened fire on them with rocket propelled grenades and small arms from fortified river bank positions.

In 1954, France gave up its control of Vietnam, and the Viet Minh was recognized as the government of northern Vietnam.

Upon hearing that a coup d ' état was being designed by ARVN generals led by General Dương Văn Minh, and supported by the CIA, Lodge gave secret assurances to the generals that the U. S. would not interfere.

The French gave up certain rights in China, the Việt Minh agreed to the return of the French in exchange for promises of independence within the French Union, and the Chinese agreed to leave.

The newly communist People's Republic of China gave the Việt Minh both sheltered bases and heavy weapons with which to fight the French.

Hanoi gave the regroupees military training and sent them back to the South along the Ho Chi Minh trail in the early 1960s.

McNamara watched on as Taylor played with Minh, giving “ broad hints of our interest in other subjects which we gave him during breaks in the game ”.

Conein asserted that " I have it on very good authority of very many people, that Big Minh gave the order ", as did William Colby, the director of the CIA's Far Eastern division.

In 1946, Lucy gave birth to her third child, Elizabette " Babette ", and Ho Chi Minh became her godfather.

The Himalayan alliance gave Chandragupta a formidable composite army made up of the cavalry forces of the Shakas, Yavanas, Kambojas, Kiratas, Parasikas and Bahlikas as attested by Mudra-Rakashas ( Mudra-Rakshasa 2 ).

His New Look policy of nuclear deterrence gave priority to inexpensive nuclear weapons while reducing the funding for conventional military forces ; the goal was to keep pressure on the Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits.

His primary objective was to move forces successfully onto Tunisia, and intending to facilitate that objective, he gave his support to François Darlan as High Commissioner in North Africa, despite Darlan's fascist leanings.

Governor Dinwiddie rewarded Washington in 1755 with a commission as " Colonel of the Virginia Regiment and Commander in Chief of all forces now raised in the defense of His Majesty's Colony " and gave him the task of defending Virginia's frontier.

In the advanced northwest, the Enlightenment gave a philosophical underpinning to the new outlook, and the continued spread of literacy, made possible by the printing press, created new secular forces in thought.

This gave it a marching speed that contemporary armies could not hope to match — on occasion forces surrendered to Alexander simply because they were not expecting him to show up for several more days.

Thus, in 1329 after this Battle of Pelekanon the Byzantines gave up the idea of getting the Kocaeli lands back and never tried conducting a field battle against the Ottoman forces.

It was not a formal treaty between nations but an informal agreement between rival military forces in which the Californios gave up fighting.

The observations in the south-central areas largely gave accurate information about the units located there: the actual invasion forces.

While maintaining a blockade of the largest Austrian holdings at Capua and Gaeta, a large portion of the allied army gave chase to the remaining Austrian forces.

A Typex machine without rotors was captured by German forces during the Battle of France and more than one German cryptanalytic section proposed attempting to crack Typex ; however, the B-Dienst codebreaking organization gave up on it after six weeks, when further time and personnel for such attempts was refused.

In 1387 a quarrel between Frederick, Duke of Bavaria, and the cities of the Swabian League allied with the Archbishop of Salzburg gave the signal for a general war in Swabia, in which the cities, weakened by their isolation, mutual jealousies and internal conflicts, were defeated by the forces of Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg, at Döffingen, near Gafenau, on 24 August 1388.

While the Parchamite government gave up trying to take over the armed forces, it did announce the execution of 13 officials who had worked for Amin.

As the armed forces surrounded La Moneda Palace, Allende gave his last speech vowing not to resign, and then committed suicide.

With a maximum ' kill zone ' of some eleven feet, the throw point bayonet attack gave an impressive increase in ' reach ', and was later adopted by other military forces, including the U. S. Army

He gave a few details of his war experience in his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon: his private conversations with Winston Churchill, the bombing of London, and what it was like entering Germany with the occupation forces.

The fact that he had control of superior forces gave him the power to challenge the authority of Zhou and Mao, whose power was based largely on the Party's support.

A rapidly growing German jet threat gave Lockheed an opportunity to develop an airframe around the most powerful jet engine that the allied forces had access to, the British Goblin.

She stated that the incident was a " betrayal " of American forces and of the " country that gave me privilege ".

Ba Tra gave the South Vietnamese government extensive information on anti-government forces working in the city.

A few years later ( 210 BC ), Hannibal, finding himself unable to protect his allies in Campania, removed the inhabitants of Atella who had survived the fall of their city to Thurii ; but it was not long before he was compelled to abandon the latter city also to its fate ; and when he himself in 204 BC withdrew his forces into Bruttium, he removed to Crotona 3500 of the principal citizens of Thurii, while he gave up the city itself to the plunder of his troops.

It also is suggested by some historians that this gave rise to the expression " Poena Infinita ", used during the second World War to explain some of the issues created by the Blitzkrieg forces, specifically caused by raids of Sd. Kfz 221 Scout Cars, which came to become known as " Poena Infinita " themselves.

He gave rock style treatments to traditional folk tunes and thereby caught the attention of another folkie Beatle fan, Gene Clark, who joined forces with McGuinn in July 1964.

The new government formed of Protestant nobility and gentry gave Ernst von Mansfeld the command over all of its forces.

Roger Ebert gave the film three stars ( out of four ) and called the film a " compromise, a film that forces a smile onto material that doesn't wear one easily ," writing that the film drew " back to story formulas ," but had good dialog and performances.