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| 1953 |
| | | Cambodia wins independence from the colonial power, France | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Hungarian photographer Robert Capa is killed by a land mine in Vietnam | |
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| 1954 |
| | | The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends with the surrender to the Vietminh of 12,000 French troops | |
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| 1954 |
| | | The French abandon Vietnam, leaving the country divided at the seventeenth parallel | |
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| 1954 |
| | | In an armistice ending the Indochina War, France acknowledges the independence of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Norodom Sihanouk abdicates as king of Cambodia and becomes the country's prime minister | |
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| 1955 |
| | | With US backing, South Vietnam declares itself an independent republic | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Abdul Rahman Putra becomes the first prime minister of independent Malaya | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Lee Kuan Yew becomes the first prime minister of the newly independent state of Singapore | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Achmed Sukarno assumes dictatorial powers, operating an Indonesian policy officially known as Guided Democracy | |
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