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The fall of France in 1940 spelt the beginning of the end for the French colonial empire. The Japanese were only too willing to take advantage of French weakness. Initially they demanded to station garrisons in Indo-China. In 1945, with defeat approaching, the Japanese attempted to win Vietnamese support by suppressing the French colonial government. They proclaimed Vietnam independent, under the representative of the former Vietnamese imperial dynasty: Bao Dai. Few were misled by what was a very transparent cover for a Japanese takeover. It did, however, encourage Vietnamese nationalists to attempt to win real independence.
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Swift, J. (2003). Southeast Asia — Partition and War. In: The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Cold War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230001183_29
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