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Name: Laos (Japan)

Type: Polity

Start: 1945 AD

End: 1945 AD

Nation: laos

Parent: japan

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This article is about the specific polity Laos (Japan) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was a puppet state of Japan, created in Laos under King Sisavang Vong when Japan conquered French Indochina during World War II.

Establishment


  • 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.
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    1. Century of humiliation


    A period (1839-1949) of foregin interventions in China resulting in the occupation, conquest or lease of large territories by foregin countries.

    1.1.Sino-Japanese Wars

    Were two major wars between China and Japan in the XIX and XX centuries.

    1.1.1.Second Sino-Japanese War

    Was a military conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War.

    1.1.1.1.Japanese invasion of French Indochina

    Was the Japanese invasion and occupation of French Indochina.

    1.1.1.1.1.Japanese coup d'etat

    Was the creation of the Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan during World War II.


    1.1.1.1.2.French reconquest of Laos

    Was the French reconquest of Laos from Japanese occupation at the end of World War II.

  • 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.
  • June 1945: By May the French had reached Luang Prabang and the Lao Issara fled in exile to Thailand.

  • Disestablishment


  • June 1945: By May the French had reached Luang Prabang and the Lao Issara fled in exile to Thailand.
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