The Japanese threat to French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia) became clear in the late 1930s, when it began its war of aggression against China in 1937 and occupied the island of Hainan in February 1939, all the more so because to the west the...

The Indochina Wars (Vietnamese:Chiến tranh Đông Dương) refers to wars of national liberation and attempts of the Vietnamese communists to assert regional hegemony that erupted in the wake of World War II, fought in Southeast Asia from 1947 until...