印度支那战争(Indochina wars)
20世纪在越南、寮国、泰国和柬埔寨境内进行的战争。法国印度支那战争（或称第一次印度支那战争）法国卷入，它统治越南并成立殖民地，在胡志明领导下宣布独立并成立越南民主共和国；1954年越南获胜结束战争。越南後来分成两部分︰共产党统治的北部和美国支持的南部；很快的在二者间爆发战争。北越获得第二次印度支那战争（或称越战）的胜利，虽然美国强力介入，越南於1976年统一。这时期柬埔寨经历了共产党和非共产党间的内战，1975年赤棉获胜。经过数年波布的恐怖统治，越南於1979年入侵柬埔寨，设立傀儡政府。赤棉与越南间的战争持续整个1980年代；1989年越南撤出大部分的军队。1993年在联合国调停下，成立一临时政府，及恢复柬埔寨王室政权。在寮国，因北越战胜南越使得共产党的巴特寮（Pathet Lao）完全控制寮国。
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Indochina wars
20th-century conflicts in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The French Indochina War (or First Indochina War) involved France, which had ruled Vietnam as its colony, and the newly independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh; the war ended in Vietnamese victory in 1954. Vietnam was then divided into the communist-dominated north and the U.S.-supported south; war soon broke out between the two. North Vietnam won the Second Indochina War, or Vietnam War, despite heavy U.S. involvement, and the country was reunited in 1976. Cambodia experienced its own civil war between communists and noncommunists during this period, which was won by the communist Khmer Rouge in 1975. After several years that saw horrifying atrocities under Pol Pot, the Vietnamese invaded in 1979 and installed a puppet government. Fighting between the Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese continued throughout the 1980s; Vietnam had withdrawn most of its troops by 1989. In 1993 UN-mediated elections established an interim government, and Cambodia's monarchy was reestablished. In Laos, North Vietnam's victory over South Vietnam brought the communist Pathet Lao complete control of Laos.