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
Japanese troops on bicycles advance into Saigon
Trần Trọng Kim and other ministers in the Vietnamese imperial cabinet.
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The August Revolution, at the time known as the General Uprising, was a revolution led by the Viet Minh against the Japanese occupation of Vietnam and the Empire of Vietnam from 16 to 30 August 1945.
French Indochina in World War II
…and took direct control of Vietnam until the end of the war. At that point, Vietnamese nationalists under the Viet Minh banner took control in the August Revolution, and issued a Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, but France took back control of the country in 1945–1946. In looking…
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.