On V-J Day, September 2, Hồ Chí Minh proclaimed in Hanoi ( Tonkin's capital) the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV). Most of the fighting took place in Tonkin in Northern Vietnam, although the conflict engulfed the entire country and also extended into the neighboring French Indochina protectorates of Laos and Cambodia.Īt the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, the allied Combined Chiefs of Staff decided that Indochina south of latitude 16° north was to be included in the Southeast Asia Command under British Admiral Mountbatten. Việt Minh was led by Võ Nguyên Giáp and Hồ Chí Minh. The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam) was fought between France and Việt Minh ( Democratic Republic of Vietnam), and their respective allies, from 19 December 1946 until 23 July 1954.
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