Viet Minh

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Viet Minh Vietnamese organization that fought for independence from the French (1946–54). It resisted Japan's occupation of French Indochina during World War 2. After the war, when the French refused to recognize it as a provisional government, it began operations against the colonial forces. The French withdrew after defeat at Dien Bien Phu (1954).

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