France's Brutal War to keep South East Asia - First Indochina War Documentary

Click here tanks.ly/3EbeWET to play World Of Tanks (use code COMBAT for a free Cromwell B tank, 3 tier 6 rental tanks for 10 battles each, and 250,000 credits) For seven years beginning in 1946, the French Union fought a desperate war to keep control of its colonies in South East Asia, in the face of a determined and ruthless Communist adversary. This is the story of a brutal colonial conflict in Vietnam that became a crisis of global importance, with each side obtaining powerful allies as the causes of anti-communism and anti-colonialism collided in dramatic fashion. To get early access to Historigraph videos and to support their creation, please support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/historigraph 0:00 - Intro 0:34 - The Guerilla War 3:24 - The Battle for Route 4 6:00 - A Change in Leadership 9:00 - The War for Rice 11:55 - The First Northwestern Campaign 13:56 - Countdown to Dien Bien Phu Credits: Artwork by: twitter.com/ChrisbyFlanker Written, Animated, Directed and Produced by: twitter.com/addaway23 Come join the historigraph discord: discord.gg/ygypfs3BEB Sources: Max Hastings, Vietnam John Springhall, "Kicking out the Vietminh: How Britain Allowed France to Reoccupy South Indochina", Journal of Contemporary History, Jan 2005 www.jstor.org/stable/30036312 George C. Herring, "The Truman Administration and the Restoration of French Sovereignty in Indochina", Diplomatic History, Spring 1977 www.jstor.org/stable/24909909 Ralph B. Smith, "The Japanese Period in Indochina and the Coup of 9 March 1945", Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Sep. 1978 www.jstor.org/stable/i20062721 Stein Tønnesson, Vietnam 1946: How the War Began Christopher Goscha, The Road to Dien Bien Phu Bernard Fall, Street without Joy: the French debacle in Indochina, Martin Windrow, The French Indochina War 1946-54 Lucien Bodard, The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam

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