Japanese invasion of French Indochina
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Was the Japanese invasion and occupation of French Indochina.
Chronology
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September 1941: In August 1941, the Imperial Japanese Army entered the French protectorate of Cambodia and established a garrison that numbered 8,000 troops. Despite their military presence, the Japanese authorities allowed the cooperating Vichy French colonial officials to remain at their administrative posts.
August 1945: The Republic of China occupied Guangzhouwan following the surrender of Japan and France formally retroceded it with the Chungking Convention.
September 1945: During the August Revolution following World War II, Vietnamese communist revolutionary Hồ Chí Minh, leader of the Việt Minh, declared independence from French Indochina on 2 September 1945, announcing the creation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
October 1945: The French were able to reimpose the colonial administration in Phnom Penh.
August 1945: After the dropping of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan accepts the Allied unconditional surrender terms (14 August 1945). Japanese forces leave occupied territories.
August 1945: The Empire of Vietnam was reintegrated into French Indochina on August 23, 1945.
September 1940: The French position at the railhead at Lạng Sơn was surrounded by Japanese armour and forced to surrender on 25 September.
September 1940: Japan took possession of Gia Lam Airbase outside Hanoi, the rail marshaling yard on the Yunnan border at Lao Cai, and Phu Lang Thuong on the railway from Hanoi to Lạng Sơn, and stationed 900 troops in the port of Haiphong and 600 more in Hanoi.
Was the Japanese occupation of southern Indochina during World War II.
August 1941: In July 1941 the Japanese occupied the Southern half of Vietnaam as well.
Was the creation of the Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan during World War II.
March 1945: The young King Norodom Sihanouk proclaimed an independent Kingdom of Kampuchea.
April 1945: The staunchly pro-French King Sisavang Vong was imprisoned and forced by the Japanese, and at much urging from Prince Phetsarath, into declaring the French protectorate over his kingdom over while accepting the nation into the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere on 8 April 1945.
March 1945: The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan.
Was the French reconquest of Laos from Japanese occupation at the end of World War II.
June 1945: By May the French had reached Luang Prabang and the Lao Issara fled in exile to Thailand.
May 1945: The French entered the Laotian capital of Vientiane towards the end of April 1946, freeing French prisoners with a French-Lao force supported by Prince Boun Oum of Champasak.
Selected Sources
Williams, M.H. (1989): United States army in World War II - Special Studies - Chronology 1941-1945, p.551
