When Japan surrendered in August 1945, the Japanese handed over control o… From Vietnam Perspective (1985), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation. By 1945, the Viet Minh had won control over a large part of Vietnam's northern Tonkin Province and had seized the capital city of Hanoi. In return, the Viet Minh supplied the United States with military intelligence concerning the Japanese and helped rescue downed American pilots. During the World War II, Japan occupied French Indochina. As of the end of 1944, the Việt Minh claimed a membership of 500,000, of which 200,000 were in Tonkin, 150,000 in Annam, and 150,000 in Cochinchina. Initially weak and poorly armed troops of the Vietnamese insurgents had been constantly updated and gained combat experience. Viet minh definition, a Vietnamese, Communist-led organization whose forces fought against the Japanese and especially against the French in Indochina: officially in existence 1941–51.

As of the end of 1944, the Viet Minh claimed a membership of 500,000, of which 200,000 were in Tonkin, 150,000 in Annam, and 150,000 in Cochinchina. Later in 1943 the general leading the Viet Minh, Vo Nguyen Giap, started using guerrilla war tactics against the Japanese and eventually prevailed with the Japanese surrender.

Discover how the United States worked with the communist Viet Minh against the Japanese in World War II During World War II the communist Viet Minh were the only effective Vietnamese force resisting the Japanese occupation of French Indochina. The occupation of Vietnam also fit into Japan’s long-term imperial plans. The French identified eleven Japanese nurses and two doctors working for the Viet Minh in northern Vietnam in 1951. For a brief period in the 16th to the 17th centuries, Japanese overseas activity and presence in Southeast Asia and elsewhere in the region boomed. One of which was Hội An in Nguyễn, Southern Vietnam. The Japanese community there was quite small, consisting of only a few tens of households. World War II Edit. To combat the guerrillas the Viet Minh, the Japanese were forced to connect only in November 1943 – until then, they successfully did the French. The pretext for the invasion was Japan’s ongoing war with China, which began in 1937. In this group of fanatically anti white Japanese officers who offered their services to the Viet Minh government after the capitulation in Tokyo, was, for example, Lieutenant Colonel Mukaiyama, from the General Staff of the Imperial Japanese 38th Army." Due to their opposition to the Japanese, the Việt Minh received funding from the United States, the Soviet Union and the Republic of China. Sizeable Japanese communities, known as Nihonmachi, could be found in many of the major ports and political centers of the region, where they exerted significant political and economic influence. Viet Minh (vēĕt` mĭn), officially Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh [League for the Independence of Vietnam], a coalition of Communist and nationalist groups that opposed the French and the Japanese during World War II. The Japanese occupation of Vietnam helped strengthen the Viet Minh and contributed to the outbreak of the First Indochina War in 1946. During the first battles in the north, Japanese soldiers served in the front lines.