Augustrevolution

The August Revolution in Vietnam refers to the operations in Vietnam in August 1945.

Current balance of power

Since March 1945, the Japanese practiced the actual political power in Vietnam, but nevertheless declared the independence of Vietnam, and Emperor Bảo put a Dai as head of a dependent of Japan state. So far, the Việt Minh had only controls the inaccessible mountainous jungle region of Viet Bac on the Chinese border, that changed, however, with the French disempowerment abruptly. Within a short time she was able to bring six more provinces under their control. This success is attributed not only to the Japanese occupying power weakening.

The consequences of the Japanese exploitation encountered in this period hundreds of thousands of impoverished and starving Vietnamese to Viet Minh. Since the French resistance against the Japanese was virtually destroyed, became the Viet Minh in the next few months until the proclamation of a cease-fire by Tenno Hirohito on 15 August 1945 in advance of the surrender of Japan to the official ally of the Allies. They provided information on Japanese troop movements and supported American secret agents, as well as downed pilots. The Americans supplied the Viet Minh also with weapons and took Ho Chi Minh even as agents under the code name " Lucius " in their services.

Triumph of the Viet Minh and Declaration of Independence

On August 7, a committee had been established for the liberation of the Vietnamese people through a national congress of the Viet Minh. Just two days before the Japanese surrender, Ho Chi Minh had called for a general uprising against the Japanese occupation and only a few days later took over the Viet Minh to power in Tonkin. So the Emperor Bao Dai had officially joined the Viet Minh to be no other choice but to abdicate on 25 August and the government.

While their position in the north was virtually undisputed, it succeeded, but at least to get in Annam and Cochinchina the prevailing influence by forming a united front under the leadership of the followers Hos together with other nationalist organizations such as the sects, Cao Dai and Hoa Hao.

This victory of the August Revolution was made possible because the Japanese army in Southeast Asia was in the summer of 1945, militarily and morally no longer able to stifle an organized all-national uprising, the French in Indochina no deployable troops more possessed and in against the Japanese Southeast Asia used the Anglo-American forces were concentrated at that time still in Burma or the Philippines.

Thus, a power vacuum was created, in which on August 29 reshaped the Liberation Committee for the Provisional Government and its leader, Ho Chi Minh, where Japan signed the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945, the day the Democratic Republic of Vietnam proclaimed. Before hundreds of thousands he announced in Hanoi the restoration of Vietnamese independence from French colonial rule and the Japanese occupation.

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