The Geneva Conference of 1954 was a diplomatic meeting of the great powers, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China, together with other countries, to discuss the aftermath of the Korean War and to end the First Indochina War. The talks on Korea failed to produce an agreement to unify the country, leaving the armistice line in place. On Indochina, the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in May strengthened the negotiators, and the Geneva Accords of July provided for a ceasefire and the temporary division of Vietnam at the 17th parallel, between a Communist north under Ho Chi Minh and a south under the State of Vietnam, with elections for reunification planned for 1956. The elections never took place, and Laos and Cambodia became independent. The United States did not sign the accords, and its involvement in South Vietnam grew.
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