Packet 3: Tossup 18

One of this country’s colonies sparred with the guerilla “Black Flag Army.” This country won the (15[1])Battle of Day River during a war where it dropped paratroopers into a valley as part of (15[1])Operation Castor. (15[1]-5[1])The (15[1])Béatrice (15[5])("bay-uh-TREES") stronghold (15[1])operated by this country was allegedly (15[1])named after one of Colonel (-5[1])de Castries’s mistresses. (15[1]-5[1])This country’s (15[1])C•E•F•E•O withdrew from a colony as part of the (*) Geneva Accords. (10[1]-5[2])Provinces (10[1]0[1])of one of this country’s (10[1])colonies included Cochinchina (10[1])and Tonkin. (10[8]-5[1])Vo (10[4])Nguyen (10[1]-5[1])Giap’s (10[3]-5[1])("voh nu-win zyahp’s") Viet Minh (10[4]-5[1])defeated this country (10[1])at the battle of Dien (10[1])Bien Phu. (10[2])For (10[1])10 points, Indochina was ruled by what European country’s Third Republic? (10[1])■END■ (0[1])

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