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Jan 12, 2021 · 1946. 6 March – France recognizes the Democratic Republic of Vietnam as a free state within the Indochinese Federation and French Union. 19 December – The Viet Minh initiate the eight-year Indochina War with an attack on French troops in the north.
On 22 October and 9 November 1953, the Kingdom of Laos and Kingdom of Cambodia proclaimed their respective independences. Following the Geneva Accord of 1954, the French were forced to withdraw from Vietnam, which had been split into the two countries (until 1976), and French Indochina was no more.
Sep 28, 2010 · In the early years, the conflict was largely a Franco-Vietnamese affair, resulting from Paris leaders ‘attempt to rebuild the colonial state and international order from before World War II, and Vietnamese nationalists’ determination to redefine that state in a new postcolonial order.
- Fredrik Logevall
- 2010
By the spring of 1950, the United States was providing direct political, economic, and military support to French forces in Vietnam. Despite such aid, however, many leaders harbored doubts about getting involved in the region.
Jan 1, 2021 · Indochina was the economic “jewel” of the French empire, thanks above all to the large rubber plantations in Cochinchina owned by companies such as Michelin and to rice exports from the Red River delta in Tonkin. At the local level, French administration relied on village chiefs.
Dec 4, 2009 · There were three periods in the evolution of American policy toward Indochina: 1945–9, during which the Americans remained anticolonial; 1950–2, when anticommunism and the Korean War led to deeper involvement in Indochina alongside the French; and 1953–4, when the new Republican administration in Washington seized direction of the war.
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5 days ago · The Indochina War, 1945-1956 is an excellent interdisciplinary resource that provides specialists, teachers, students, and the public with a diverse range of tools and information on a conflict that has been largely overshadowed or absorbed as a small component of the American War in Vietnam.
