  the geneva conference (april 26 â july 20, 1954) was a conference which took place in geneva, switzerland, whose purpose was to attempt to find a way to settle outstanding issues on the korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in indochina. the soviet union, the united states, france, the united kingdom, and the peopleâs republic of china were participants throughout the whole conference while different countries concerned with the two questions were also represented during the discussion of their respective questions, which included the countries that sent troops through the united nations to the korean war and the various countries that ended the first indochina war between france and the viá»t minh. the part of the conference on the korean question ended without adopting any declarations or proposals. on indochina, the conference produced a set of documents known as the geneva accords. these agreements temporarily separated vietnam into two zones, a northern zone to be governed by the viá»t minh, and a southern zone to be governed by the state of vietnam, then headed by former emperor báº£o Äáº¡i. a conference final declaration, issued by the british chairman of the conference, provided that a general election be held by july 1956 to create a unified vietnamese state. although presented as a consensus view, this document was not accepted by the delegates of either the state of vietnam or the united states. in addition, three separate ceasefire accords, covering cambodia, laos, and vietnam, were signed at the conference. ==background== on february 18, 1954, at the berlin conference it was agreed that "the problem of restoring peace in indochina will also be discussed at the conference [on the korean question] to which representatives of the united states, france, the united kingdom, the union of soviet socialist republics and the chinese people's republic and other interested states will be invited."{{cite book|last=logevall|first=fredrik|title=embers of war: the fall of an empire and the m
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