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The 1945–1946 War in Vietnam, codenamed Operation Masterdom [4] by the British, and also known as the Southern Resistance War (Vietnamese: Nam Bộ kháng chiến) [5] [6] by the Vietnamese, was a post–World War II armed conflict involving a largely Indian and French task force and Japanese troops from the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, versus the Vietnamese communist movement, the ...
China sent 320,000 troops and annual arms shipments worth $180 million. [228]: 135 China claims to have caused 38% of American air losses in the war. [7] China also began financing the Khmer Rouge as a counterweight to North Vietnam. China "armed and trained" the Khmer Rouge during the civil war, and continued to aid them afterward. [229]
Defeat: Đô Lương Mutiny (1941) Mutiny Indochinese soldiers led by Đội Cung in Annam: French State: Defeat: South-East Asian theatre of World War II (1941–1945) Allies. United Kingdom of Great Britain; Republic of China; United States of America; Provisional Government of the French Republic (from 1944) Việt Minh (Vietnam Independence ...
Vietnamese authorities confiscated property owned in Vietnam by overseas Chinese, and expelled many Chinese from Vietnam to a number of provinces in southern China. [ 80 ] However, China caused Vietnam to suffer from serious economic and military hardship by threatening to launch a second invasion, and by supporting Pol Pot guerrillas in Cambodia.
Their strategy did not revolve around holding the capital. Rather, it was to pin down the French while the leadership evacuated to bases in Northern and Central Vietnamese jungles, while the resulting urban battle would attract international attention towards the Vietnamese struggle against colonial conquest.
During the Cold War, the Indochina wars (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Đông Dương) were a series of wars which were waged in Indochina from 1946 to 1991, by communist forces (mainly ones led by Vietnamese communists) against the opponents (mainly the Vietnamese capitalists, Trotskyists, the State of Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam, the French, American, Laotian royalist, Cambodian and Chinese ...
Unlike soldiers in World War II and Korea, there were no secure rear areas in which to get rest and relaxation. [citation needed] One unidentified soldier said to United Press International that there was nothing to do in Vietnam and therefore many of the men smoked marijuana. He said, "One of the biggest reasons that a lot of GIs do get high ...
Tension between Vietnam and China mounted together with China's rivalry with the Soviet Union and conflict erupted with Cambodia, China's ally. Vietnam was also subject to trade embargoes by the U.S. and its allies. [citation needed] The SRVN government implemented a Stalinist dictatorship of the proletariat in the South as they had done in the ...