[Name of the Writer]

[Name of the Supervisor]

[Subject]

[Date]

French and Viet Minh Military Forces from 1946-1954

Introduction

During the 19th century, France had established colonial hegemony in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. In 1945, with the liberation of France and the end of the Vichy government, the Japanese seized full control in French Indochina, eliminating the French police agencies and other armed authorities that had long kept in check indigenous nationalist groups seeking independence. In Vietnam, the largest and most powerful of these groups was the Viet Minh, which, under the leadership of Soviet-trained Ho Chi Minh, launched a guerrilla war against the Japanese forces of ...