1. The Collapse of European Empires
... off in 1940 when pressure from Japan meant the hold of sovereignty over Indochina was simply incapable. With the British preventing any reinforcement from the metropole, the supply of fuel stopped by Japanese pressure, and Admiral Decoux making successive concessions to the Japanese in order to grasp onto some form of remaining sovereignty, albeit weak, the hold onto Indochina was almost impossible. By 1945, French authority was broken, and appointment ... hostile people. Countering this, it can be argued that there are two sides to this argument of a spread in nationalism after the war...
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