Vietnam Timeline

  • Ha Noi

    French troops landed in North Vietnam and captured Ha Noi
  • Vietnam forced to become French protectorate

  • Ha Noi

    invasion (see other Ha Noi)
  • Country formally became part of French-IndoChina

    French administratrion posed cultural and political changes on Vietnamese society; Westen style system of modern education developed; heavy influence of Roman catholicism
  • Ho Chi Minh born

    Ho Chi Minh born
    later helped to form Indo-Chinese communist partaayyyyhh
  • Revolutionary Youth League

    Minh formed Revolutionary Youth League from Safety of China; became Vietnamese communist party in 1930; educated and trained Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries in order to prepare for the prominent leadership of communist party of Vietnam.
  • Anti-French nationalist died (Phan Chu Trinh?)

    Vietnamese adored him; editor of Nietnamese newspaper eulagized him and was arrested; inspired student strikes, joined by bank and postal employees. French arrested hundreds of students and expelled them from their colleges/universities.
  • Japanese invasion in Vietnam

    Japanese invasion in Vietnam
    wanted to prevent Republic of China from importing arms and fuel through French IndoChina along the SIno-Vietnamese Railway.
  • Emperor forced to surrender three provinces to France