August revolution in Vietnam

The August Revolution in Vietnam refers to the events in Vietnam in August 1945. [ [http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/le-duan/works/1965/soc-rev-viet-v1/ch02.htm On The Socialist Revolution In Vietnam Volume 1 ] ]

Balance of Power

Since March 1945 the Japanese had the real political power in Vietnam, but declared the independence of Vietnam and put Bảo Đại emperor as head of a state-dependent Japan. So far, the only Việt Minh inaccessible, mountainous jungle region to the Chinese border control, but this changed with the French suddenly disempowerment. Within a short time she was six more provinces under their control. This success is not only due to the weaker expectant Japanese occupying power.

The consequences of the Japanese exploitation were at this time hundreds of thousands of impoverished and starving Vietnamese to Viet Minh. Since the French Resistance against the Japanese was practically dismantled, became the Viet Minh in the coming months until the surrender of Japan, 15 August 1945 to an official ally of the Allies. It provided information on Japanese troop movements and supported American secret agents, as well as abgeschossene pilots. The Americans supplied the Viet Minh also with weapons and took Ho Chi Minh even as agents under the cover name "Lucius" in their services.

Triumph of the Viet Minh and Independence declaration

August 7th was a National Congress of the Viet Minh a committee for the liberation of the Vietnamese people has been set up. Just two days before the Japanese surrender had Ho Chi Minh in the general uprising against the Japanese occupation, and called a few days later, the Viet Minh to power in the Tonkin. Sun also had the Emperor Bao Dai no other choice than on 25 Abzudanken August and the reign officially to the Viet Minh.

During its position in the north was virtually unchallenged, it succeeded her in Annam and Cochin China but still the predominant influence to gain by sharing with other nationalist organisations such as the Cao Dai sects and Hoa Hao form a united front under the leadership of supporters formed Hos.

This victory of the August Revolution was made possible because the Japanese army in Southeast Asia in the summer of 1945 militarily and morally no longer in place an organized nationwide uprising to suffocate, the French in Indochina no longer had operational troops and against the Japanese in Southeast Asia used Anglo-American forces at that time still in Burma and the Philippines were concentrated.

This was a power vacuum emerged, in which 29 August Liberation Committee for the Provisional Government umbildete and its chairman, Ho Chi Minh, on September 2 1945, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam proclaimed. Before hundreds of thousands in Hanoi, he announced the restoration of Vietnamese independence from French colonial rule and the Japanese occupation.

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*This article originated as a machine translation of "" from the German Wikipedia.