fco_738482 - UNION FRANÇAISE - VIET-NAM - HÔ CHI MINH 2 dong ou piastres 1946 Hanoi

FRENCH UNION - VIETNAM - HO CHI MINH

(1946-1948)

Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) founded the Viet-Minh in 1941. On August 22, 1945, his militia took Hanoi and massacred the Europeans. On August 25, Emperor Bao Dai (1932-1945) abdicated and on September 2, 1945, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed in Hanoi. On March 6, 1946, Ho Chi Minh, who had become President of the Republic, joined the French Union with Cambodia and Laos, but France's refusal to hand over Cochinchina to him and the bombardment of Haiphong on November 24, 1946 put an end to the negotiations: the war began on December 19, 1946. It was to last eight years until the year 1954. Bao Dai was restored (1945-1955). Unleashed by their supposed American allies, the French surrendered at Diên Biên Phu on May 7, 1954, leaving thousands dead in extermination and re-education camps where survival rates were vastly lower than those in Nazi stalags..