The Indochina War 1945-1954 (Full Documentary)

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Get Nebula with 40% off annual subscription with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/realtimehistory Watch Red Atoms on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/redatoms The Indochina War is a pivotal conflict in the Cold War emerging from the end of the Second World War. When the former imperial power France tries to reclaim their former colony of Indochina, they encounter resistance in today's Vietnam by the Viet Minh under Ho Chi Minh. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 03:22 Indochina during WW2 05:25 Proclamation of Vietnamese Independence 07:00 Post-WW2 Occupation of Vietnam 08:25 Operation Masterdom 18:01 Road to Indochina War 21:40 Outbreak of the Indochina War 25:20 Mission Accomplished? 26:18 Battle of Route Coloniale 4 30:31 US Support for France in Indochina 31:55 Operation Lorraine 32:39 Battle of Na San 35:20 Stalemate and more US Support 38:05 Battle of Dien Bien Phu 46:44 No Direct US Intervention 48:39 French Defeat at Dien Bien Phu 53:06 End of the Indochina War » SUPPORT US https://patreon.com/realtimehistory https://nebula.tv/realtimehistory » THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Jim Frame, Erik Ritter, Cardboard, Ken Brownfield, David Garfinkle, Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SOURCES Lawrence Atwood, Mark & Logevall, Fredrik (eds.), The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2007) Chen Jian, “China and the First Indo-China War, 1950-54", The China Quarterly, No. 133 (March 1993) Duiker, William J, “Ho Chi Min and the Strategy of People’s War” in Lawrence, Mark Atwood & Logevall, Fredrik (eds.), The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2007) Irving, Ronald E. M. The First Indochina War: French and American Policy 1945-54, (London : Croom Helm, 1975) Lawrence Atwood, Mark & Logevall, Fredrik (eds.), The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2007) L’Herpiniere, Michel & Perkins, Mandaley, Hanoi, Adieu: A Bittersweet Memoir of a Frenchman in Indochina, (Enfield, N.S.W : Haper Perennial, 2006) Prados, John, “Assessing Dien Bien Phu” in Lawrence, Mark Atwood & Logevall, Fredrik (eds.), The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2007) Thee, Marek, “The Indochina Wars: Great Power Involvement - Escalation and Disengagement”, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1976) Tønnesson, Stein, “The Longest Wars: Indochina 1945-75", Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 22, No. 1 (1985) Tucker-Jones, Anthony, Dien Bien Phu: The First Indochina War, 1946-1954, (Barnsley : Pen and Sword Military, 2017) Trương Như Tảng, Chanoff, David and Doan Van Toai, A Viet Cong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and its Aftermath, (New York, NY : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1985) Lawrence, Mark Atwood, The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008) Lawrence, Mark Atwood, “Forging the “Great Combination”: Britain and the Indochina Problem, 1945-1950" in Lawrence, Mark Atwood and Logevall, Fredrik (eds.), The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, (Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2007) Marr, David G. Vietnam: State, War, and Revolution (1945-1946), (Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2013) Patti, Archimedes, “Transcript of the Operational Priority Communication from Strategic Services Officer Archimedes Patti” (1945) Prenderghast, Gerald, Britain and the Wars in Vietnam: The Supply of Troops, Arms and Intelligence, 1945-1975, (Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015) Ruane, Kevin (ed.), The Vietnam Wars, (Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000) Tachikawa Kyoichi, "Indoshina zanryu Nippon hei no kenkyu" [A Study of Japanese Deserters in French Indochina], Senshi Kenkyu Nenpo [Military History Annual], No. 5 (2002) »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Mark Newton, Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller Editing: Philipp Appelt, Toni Steller Motion Design: Philipp Appelt, Toni Steller Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Research by: Mark Newton Fact checking: Florian Wittig Executive Producer: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster Contains licensed material by getty images, AP and Reuters Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 Music Library: Epidemic Sound All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2024