First Indochina War
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The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam) began in French Indochina on 19 December 1946, and lasted until 20 July 1954. Fighting between French forces and their Viet Minh opponents in the south dated from September 1945. The conflict pitted a range of forces, including the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps, led by France and supported by Bảo Đại's Vietnamese National Army against the Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh and the People's Army of Vietnam led by Vo Nguyen Giap. 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.
See also
- My Trach Massacre
- Hélie Denoix de Saint Marc
- Japanese invasion of French Indochina
- Franco-Thai War
- Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina
- Indochina Wars
- North Vietnamese invasion of Laos
- Second Indochina War
- Third Indochina War
- Cambodian–Vietnamese War
- Pathet Lao
- United Issarak Front