USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Terms in this set (36) Which country controlled Vietnam before WWII? During WWII? France had controlled Vietnam along with its neighbors, Cambodia and Laos, from the 1800s until WWII.

Detailed explanation-2: -Vietnam became a French colony in 1877 with the founding of French Indochina, which included Tonkin, Annam, Cochin China and Cambodia. (Laos was added in 1893.) The French lost control of their colony briefly during World War II, when Japanese troops occupied Vietnam.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the First World War, Vietnam was under French domination and part of French Indochina. While seeking to maximize the use of Indochina’s natural resources and manpower to fight the war, France cracked down all patriotic movements in Vietnam.

Detailed explanation-4: -Before the French came to Indochina, Vietnam, the Khmer Empire (Cambodia), and the Laotian Kingdom (Laos) were independent countries. Vietnam had been ruled by neighboring China for hundreds of years, but after centuries of resistance the Vietnamese people overthrew their Chinese rulers and became independent.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ho Chi Minh’s communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam took control of the zone to the north of the 17th parallel, while the State of Vietnam, created by the French in 1949 and increasingly supported by the Americans, administered the south.