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The First Indochina War (also known as the '''French Indochina War''', the '''Franco-Vietnamese War''', the '''Franco-Vietminh War''', the '''Indochina War''' and the '''Dirty War''' in France and in contemporary Vietnam , as the '''French War''') was fought in French Indochina from 19 December 1946 until 1 August 1954 between the French Union 's French Far East Expeditionary Corps , led by France and supported by Bao Dai 's Vietnamese National Army against the Viet Minh , led by Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap . Most of the fighting took place in Tonkin in Northern Vietnam, although the conflict engulfed the entire country and also extended into the neighboring French Indochina Protectorates of Laos and Cambodia . The Viet Minh launched a rebellion against the French authority governing the colonies of French Indochina. The first few years of the war involved a low-level rural insurgency against French authority. However, after the Chinese communists reached the Northern border of Vietnam in 1949, the conflict became a conventional war between two armies equipped with modern weapons supplied by the two superpowers. |
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