Empire of Vietnam
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The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived sponsored state of Imperial Japan between March 11 and August 30, 1945. It was a member of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and was ruled by the Nguyễ
Announcement of the independence of the Empire of Vietnam, reported on Sài Gòn newspaper.
Trotskyist League demonstration in Saigon, 21 August 1945.
Trần Trọng Kim as new prime minister of the Empire of Vietnam. Photograph by Domei.
Commemoration of the Yên Bái Uprising in a weekly newspaper, Hanoi June 1945.
North Vietnam
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The Democratic Republic of Vietnam was a country in Southeast Asia from 1945 to 1976, with sovereignty recognized in July 1954, after which it became commonly known as North Vietnam. A member of the c
Empire of Vietnam
…Kingdom of Luang Prabang (1945) Democratic Republic of Vietnam Civil conflicts in Vietnam (1945–1949…
Ho Chi Minh declaring independence at Ba Dinh Square on September 2nd, 1945
The DRV coalition government in early 1946
First Nationwide Congress of Emulation Fighters, 1952
Ho Chi Minh (seated, right) with Tôn Đức Thắng (seated, left) and other DRV leaders in a liberated zone of northern Vietnam during the First Indochina War.