<P> The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva , Switzerland from April 26 -- July 20 , 1954 . It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War . The part of the conference on the Korean question ended without adopting any declarations or proposals , so is generally considered less relevant . The Geneva Accords that dealt with the dismantling of French Indochina proved to have long - lasting repercussions , however . The crumbling of the French Empire in Southeast Asia would create the eventual states of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( North Vietnam ) , the State of Vietnam ( the future Republic of Vietnam / South Vietnam ) , the Kingdom of Cambodia , and the Kingdom of Laos . </P>
<P> The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva , Switzerland from April 26 -- July 20 , 1954 . It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War . The part of the conference on the Korean question ended without adopting any declarations or proposals , so is generally considered less relevant . The Geneva Accords that dealt with the dismantling of French Indochina proved to have long - lasting repercussions , however . The crumbling of the French Empire in Southeast Asia would create the eventual states of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( North Vietnam ) , the State of Vietnam ( the future Republic of Vietnam / South Vietnam ) , the Kingdom of Cambodia , and the Kingdom of Laos . </P>
which international agreement split north vietnam and south vietnam in 1954
which international agreement split north vietnam and south vietnam in 1954
Geneva Conference
Geneva Conference