A conference held in Geneva, Switzerland, to negotiate an end to the French Indo-China War. Planned by the wartime Allies to settle the future of Korea and Indo-China, it made rapid progress on the latter after the French defeat at Dienbienphu. The resulting armistice provided for the withdrawal of French troops and the partition of Vietnam, with the north under the control of Ho Chi Minh’s Vietminh and the south under Saigon. Intended as a prelude to reunification through general elections, the Conference actually resulted in the emergence of two antagonistic regimes which were not to be united until Hanoi’s victory in the Vietnam War in 1975.