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France annexed Cochin China in 1862, completed in 1867 and ended with the establishment of protectorates over Annam and Tonkin.
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Vietnamese government forced to negotiate and officially cede the territories of Bien Hoa, Gia Dinh and Dinh Tuong to France in Treaty of Saigon
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France obtains control over northern half of Vietnam after its victory over China in the Sino-French war
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French Indochina officially formed in October 1887 from Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina and the Kingdom of Cambodia
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Ho Chi Minh establishes the Indochinese Communist Party to oppose France
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An uprising of Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army in collaboration with civilian supporters occured, members of the Vietnamese Nationalist Party
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Bao Dai becomes French-sponsored puppet emperor of Vietnam
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Japanese occupy Indochina (but French colonial administration remains)
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Japanese move into soutern Vietnam; Allies impose oil embargo on Japan, and Ho Chi Minh returns to Vietnam, fights the Japanese alongside the Americans
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Japan ousts French government, reinstalls Bao Dai as Emperor and Summer of 1945 famine hits Hanoi and 2 million + starve, peasant revolt
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Ho Chi Minh founds Viet Minh; uprising against French & Japanese