Members of the 1st Foreign Parachute Heavy Mortar Company during the Indochina War. After the close of hostilities in WWII, 200,000 Chinese troops under General Lu Han sent by Chiang Kai-shek entered French Indochina north of the 16th parallel to accept the surrender of Japanese occupying forces, and remained there until 1946. [142]

During the Cold War, the Indochina wars (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Đông Dương) were a series of wars which were waged in Indochina from 1946 to 1991, by communist forces (mainly ones led by Vietnamese communists) against the opponents (mainly the Vietnamese capitalists, Trotskyists, the State of Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam, the French ...

In this podcast Dr Aurélie Basha i Novosejt (University of Kent) examines the early nationalist movements in Indochina, the impact of World War II, the emergence of Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh, the First Indochina War and the consequences of the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ.

With scholarship on the remembrance of French colonization dominated by the Algerian War and only limited scholarship completed on remembrance of the Cold War in Western Europe, her study of the ongoing cultural and social impacts of the Indochina War on French society helps redress the balance.

This course will probe deeply into the causes, processes, and outcomes of the Indochina wars and will highlight the roles of regional states (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand) and non-state actors (e.g. social, cultural, and anti-imperialist networks and movements).

The Korean war forms one part of the worldwide effort of communism to conquer freedom. More immediately it is part of that effort in Asia. A single Chinese-Communist aggressive front extends from Korea on the north to Indochina in the south.

1952 - The Defense of Indochina: Communiqué Regarding Discussions Between Representatives of the United States, France, Viet-Nam, and Cambodia, June 18; 1952 - Support by NATO of the French Union Defense Efforts in Indochina: Resolution Adopted by …

1945年7月 波茨坦会议， 同盟國 議決以北緯十六度為界，南屬英軍 蒙巴頓 東南亞司令部統轄，北歸中國國民政府 蔣中正 佔領，然後全部歸還法國。 9月，中國軍入越北 東京 地，法英聯軍則登陸 西貢 （交趾支那之都）。 中國軍隊承認胡志明領導之越南政府於河內執政，而法英兩國拒之，試圖恢復法國於當地的統治。 9月2日，胡志明於河內宣告獨立，建 越南民主共和国 [17]。 9月23日，法軍重新控制交趾支那，西貢四郊則開始展開游擊戰。 法軍步步為營，漸得全境控制，胡 …

The Indochina wars, a function of the Viet-nam conflict, will undoubtedly be recalled in history as the central human and political drama of the post World War II period. The chain of wars which raged for three de-cades in Indochina - in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia - produced turmoil far beyond the borders of the Indochina penisula. They

Hmong groups, the chief opium producers in Indochina, revolted against French taxation and special status given to the Lao Loum, minorities in the highlands, in a conflict known as the War of the Insane.