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Seeing an opportunity to seize control, Ho’s Viet Minh forces immediately rose up, taking over the northern city of Hanoi and declaring a Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) with Ho as president. To fight off both Japanese occupiers and the French colonial administration, political leader Ho Chi Minh-inspired by Chinese and Soviet communism-formed the Viet Minh, or the League for the Independence of Vietnam.įollowing its 1945 defeat in World War II, Japan withdrew its forces from Vietnam, leaving the French-educated Emperor Bao Dai in control. Vietnam, a nation in Southeast Asia on the eastern edge of the Indochinese peninsula, had been under French colonial rule since the 19th century.ĭuring World War II, Japanese forces invaded Vietnam.