Why didn’t the French win the war against the Vietminh?
The French lost their Indochinese colonies due to political, military, diplomatic, economic and socio-cultural factors. Armed struggle for the unity and total independence started in 1946 and eventually terminated with the reunification of the country’s desire years later, which constituted the most important phase of modern colonial history resulting in the loss of French power by the end of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Indochina suffered subjugation from the Chinese, the French, and the Japanese. The events of World War II, including the defeat, humiliation, and compromise of the French, galvanized the revolutionary movements. Two worlds collided, a European colonial power and an Indo-Chinese traditional society. …show more content…
The rebellion began in Yen Bai, formatted by the nationalist party, peasant armed uprising and work stoppages of industrial workers resulted in the formation of the local soviet governments under the leadership of the Indochinese communist party shook Vietnamese colony.
In 1858, French attacked Da Nang and ended with the appointment of Paul Doumer in 1897. First colonial possession of France in Southeast Asia took its definite shape in 1897 when Doumer implemented an old decree to institute French Indochina union. For nearly 45 years of the twentieth century, it constituted the phase of Vietnam’s colonial history when France established foreign policies and international relations over Indochina and failed that empire; an empire which subsequently became part of a supposedly indissoluble