In mid-1940, Nazi Germany rapidly defeated the French Third Republic, and the colonial administration of French Indochina passed to the French State. Many concessions were granted to the Empire of Jap
Japanese propaganda poster exalting collaboration between the Empire of Japan, Vichy France and the Vietnamese in Indochina, c. 1942
French Indochina c.1933
Japanese troops on bicycles advance into Saigon
Trần Trọng Kim and other ministers in the Vietnamese imperial cabinet.
August Revolution
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The August Revolution, also known as the August General Uprising, was a revolution led by the Việt Minh against the Japanese occupation of Vietnam and the Empire of Vietnam from 13 to 28 August 1945.
Occupation of the Tonkin Palace, Hanoi, 19 August 1945
Thanh Hoá in 1932
Hanoi after 9 March 1945
Meeting at the Grand Opera in Hanoi on 17 August 1945.