Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo) American POWs gave Hoa Lo, perhaps the best known of all the North's prison camps, the ironic tag of "Hanoi Hilton." The French occupiers of Vietnam had built it at the turn ...

Ho led a nearly continuous war against the French and, later, the Americans until his death in 1969. An original founder of the Indochina Communist Party, Le served on North Vietnam's Central ...

The Geneva Agreement spelt the end of French control of Vietnam, and the start of a major headache for the USA. President of North Vietnam from 1954 until his death. Also known as Nguyen Ai Quoc ...

Vietnam had been a French colony close colonyA country ... just off the coast of North Vietnam, by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. This provoked President Johnson into retaliating with military ...