Who, what, or where is Dien Bien Phu and why should you know the

[illini]

significance of said person, play, or thing?

[gater]

1. A place. Go ask the French, then google Viet Nam War.

[mitchtv]

2. France's last stand in French Indochina

One of my earlier political memories ;'54 I think.

[illini]

3. Ding Ding Ding.

Its also a lesson on what a determined indigenous people can do to an colonial occupation force.

[mitchtv]

4. "Some say" that Eisenhower

offered the A bomb to FR. true?

[lenidog]

5. Actually

the French asked us and Eisenhower turned them down.

[kodi]

6. an historical example of the consequences of underestimating an enemy

akin to Darius at Marathon, or the French at Agincourt.

Pride cometh before a fall.

[Historic NY]

7. Major defeat for the French in Indochina by the Viet minh forces...

battle lasted from March 13 - May 8, 1954...some almost 12000 French troops were taken prisoner. It essentially ended French colonial rule in Indo-china.