In mid-1940, Nazi Germany rapidly defeated the French Third Republic, and the colonial administration of French Indochina (modern-day Vietnam, Laos and...

1945, towards the end of World War II. With Japanese forces losing the war and the threat of an Allied invasion of Indochina imminent, the Japanese were...

The Japanese invasion of French Indochina (仏印進駐, Futsu-in shinchū), (French: Invasion japonaise de l'Indochine) was a short undeclared military confrontation...

The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam, and alternatively internationally...

Indochina War (called the Indochina War in France and the French War in Vietnam) began after the end of World War II with the War in Vietnam (1945–1946), which...

French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China), officially known as the Indochinese Union and after 1941 as the Indochinese Federation, was...

France was one of the largest military powers to come under occupation as part of the Western Front in World War II. The Western Front was a military...

1940—1946 in French Indochina focuses on events that happened in French Indochina during and after World War II and which influenced the eventual decision...

British/French/Japanese forces, and southern control of Vietnam was reasserted by the French colonial empire, leading to the First Indochina War. In July...

Thailand and Vichy France over certain areas of French Indochina. Negotiations shortly before World War II had shown that the French government was willing...