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The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN), or less commonly, Vietnamese Democratic Republic ( in Hanoi on September 2 , 1945 , and was recognized by the People's Republic Of China and the Soviet Union in 1950 . In 1954, after the defeat of France by the Viet Minh at the Battle Of Dien Bien Phu , and as a result of the Geneva Conference , France formally recognized the DRV and Vietnam was temporarily partitioned in two by the Demilitarized Zone (or DMZ at the 17th Parallel ). Under the Geneva Accord national elections were to be held in both parts of Vietnam in 1956 , with a view to unifying the country. In the interim, North Vietnam was established as a Communist State , the first in Southeast Asia . Non-communist South Vietnam was established in the southern part of the country, with its capital at Saigon .

Following the partition of the country, there followed a mass exodus of North Vietnamese to the South, many of them in which many intellectuals and writers were sent to Reeducation camps because they did not agree with the government.

of the reunified Socialist Republic Of Vietnam .]]

North Vietnam's capital was Hanoi and it was ruled by a Communist government allied with the Soviet Union and China . During the Vietnam War , North Vietnam largely controlled the National Liberation Front Of South Vietnam (NLF, also known as the Viet Cong ) who were fighting against the government of South Vietnam , and the United States . From 1965 onwards, both China and the Soviet Union provided huge amounts of aid to North Vietnam for their war effort, in what became known as the Vietnam War . North Vietnam invaded and occupied portions of its neighbors Laos and Cambodia . It also supplied weapons to insurgent groups which eventually overthrew the governments of both countries.

With the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese Forces on April 30 , 1975 , political authority within South Vietnam was nominally assumed by the North Vietnamese controlled Provisional Revolutionary Government Of The Republic Of South Vietnam (P.R.G.). But in truth, political authority rested with the North Vietnamese Army. This government merged with North Vietnam on July 2 , 1976 , to form a single nation called the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, commonly known as '' Vietnam ''.


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