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Laos History Index
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Source: The Library of Congress Country Studies

• History Introduction
• Historical Setting
  • EARLY HISTORY
    * Power Centers in the Middle Mekong Valley
    * Mongol Influence
    * The Founding of Lan Xang
    * The Division of Lan Xang
  • DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
    * The Hold of Siam
    * The Eviction of Siam
    * Laos Under the French
  • WORLD WAR II AND AFTER
    * The French Protectorate and Direct Administration
    * Nationalist Stirrings
    * Events in 1945
    * The Lao Issara Government
    * A Confusing Situation
  • THE COMING OF INDEPENDENCE
    * The Kingdom of Laos
    * The Pathet Lao
  • TOWARD NEUTRALITY: THE FIRST COALITION
    * Initial Difficulties
    * Renewed Negotiations
    * A Fragile Unity
    * The 1958 Elections
    * North Vietnamese Invasion
    * The Army Enters Politics
  • THE ATTEMPT TO RESTORE NEUTRALITY
    * A Deepening Split
    * The Battle of Vientiane
    * The Widening War
  • INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE AND THE ADVENT OF THE SECOND COALITION
    * Expansion of Pathet Lao Influence
    * Protracted Diplomacy
    * Renewed Strains
    * The "Secret War"
  • THE THIRD COALITION AND THE LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
    * The Vientiane Agreement
    * The Origins of the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Question
    * Formation of the Third Coalition
    * The Communist Seizure of Power
    * Establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic
    * "Seminar Camps" and the Death of King Savang Vatthana
    * Postwar Relations with the United States
    * Developments in the Lao People's Democratic Republic

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