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The French conquest of Vietnam 1 (1858–1885) was a series of military expeditions that pitted the Second French Empire, later the French Third Republic, against the Vietnamese empire of Đại Nam in the mid-late 19th century.
[18] [54] [9]: 12–3 [55] [56] The war ended with French defeat, leading to Vietnam's full independence in June 1954 and communists taking power in the North a month later. It was the basis for the Vietnam War, an ideological war like it but no longer related to colonialism. [57] [58] [59] [60]
The Cochinchina campaign [1] was a series of military operations between 1858 and 1862, launched by a joint naval expedition force on behalf of the French Empire and the Kingdom of Spain against the Nguyễn period Vietnamese state. It was the opening conflict of the French conquest of Vietnam.
The 1945–1946 War in Vietnam, codenamed Operation Masterdom [4] by the British, and also known as the Southern Resistance War (Vietnamese: Nam Bộ kháng chiến) [5] [6] by the Vietnamese, was a post–World War II armed conflict involving a largely British-Indian and French task force and Japanese troops from the Southern Expeditionary Army Group, versus the Vietnamese communist movement ...
French Indochina was officially formed in October 1887 from Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina (which together form modern Vietnam) and the Kingdom of Cambodia following the Sino-French war (1884–1885). Jean Antoine Ernest Constans became the first Governor-General of French Indochina on 16 November 1887.
Franco–Thai War (1940–1941) French State French Indochina: Thailand: Military indecisive Thai political victory. Disputed enclaves returned to Thailand; Cochinchina uprising (1940) Communist Party of Vietnam in Cochinchina: Empire of Japan French State: Defeat: Đô Lương Mutiny (1941) Mutiny Indochinese soldiers led by Đội Cung in ...
The United States was concerned and worried that a French military defeat in Vietnam would result in the spread of communism to all the countries of Southeast Asia—the domino theory—and was looking for means of aiding the French without committing American troops to the war. A map of North and South Vietnam after the Geneva Accords of 1954.
Viet Minh set off explosives, at 20:03 in the evening of December 19, 1946, after smuggling them past French Army guards into the city's power plant. The explosion plunged Hanoi into darkness, and throughout the city the Viet-Minh began attacking French military positions and French homes. [6]