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 * __Vietnam__**

1940, the Japanese invade Vietnam. The occupation was only the latest example of foreigners ruling the Vietnamese people. The Chinese Empire had controlled the region for hundreds of years. Then, beginning in the late 1800s and lasting until World War II, France ruled Vietnam as well as neighboring Laos and Cambodia-- a region known collectively as French Indochina.



Japan surrendered in 1945, it gave up control of Indochina. Ho Chi Minh quickly declared Vietnam to be an independent nation.