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To prepare for an invasion of the Dutch East Indies, some 140,000 Japanese troops invaded southern French Indochina on 28 July 1941. [citation needed] French troops and the civil administration were allowed to remain, albeit under Japanese supervision. The Vietnamese perspective on the Japanese occupation of French Indochina was complex.
French troops, since the collapse of their authority in Indochina, were exclusively used by the Japanese to suppress insurgencies by various nationalist movements in Vietnam, mainly the Việt Minh; the French had already developed a reputation of repressive behaviour toward the native population, which hindered any opportunity to recruit local ...
Following Japan's entry into Indochina on 22 September 1940, the Thai government, under the pro-Japanese leadership of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram, and strengthened by virtue of its treaty of friendship with Japan, invaded French Protectorate of Cambodia's western provinces to which it had historic claims.
Ho sent a cable on 17 October 1945 to American president Harry S. Truman calling on him, Chiang Kai-shek, Premier Stalin and Premier Attlee to go to the United Nations against France and demand France not be allowed to return to occupy Vietnam, accusing France of having sold out and cheated the Allies by surrendering Indochina to Japan and that ...
French Indochina Japan. Defeat. Restoration of French rule in Indochina. Beginning of the First Indochina War. ... Post-invasion: 1979–1989: Vietnam
The 1945–1946 War in Vietnam, codenamed Operation Masterdom [3] by the British, and also known as the Southern Resistance War (Vietnamese: Nam Bộ kháng chiến) [4] [5] by the Vietnamese, was a post–World War II armed conflict involving a largely British-Indian and French task force and Japanese troops from the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, versus the Vietnamese communist movement ...
French–Vietnamese relations started during the early 17th century with the arrival of the Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes.Around this time, Vietnam had only just begun its "Southward"—"Nam Tiến", the occupation of the Mekong Delta, a territory being part of the Khmer Empire and to a lesser extent, the kingdom of Champa which they had defeated in 1471.
This battle was one of the very few battles of the Japanese invasion of French Indochina, an invasion only lasting three days. This battle took place in Lạng Sơn, and the areas surrounding it, which are located in modern-day northern Vietnam.The city was invaded by the Japanese army, after forcibly crossing the Chinese border into Vietnam. [3]