Back ثورة أغسطس Arabic Avqust inqilabı Azerbaijani August-revolutionen Danish Augustrevolution German Aŭgusta Revolucio Esperanto Revolución de agosto Spanish انقلاب آگوست Persian Révolution d'Août French Օգոստոսյան հեղափոխություն Վիետնամում Armenian Revolusi Agustus ID
The August Revolution (Vietnamese: Cách-mạng tháng Tám), also known as the August General Uprising (Vietnamese: Tổng khởi-nghĩa giành chính-quyền tháng Tám, lit. 'the Total uprising to seize power in August'), was a revolution led by the Việt Minh against the Empire of Vietnam from 16 August to 2 September 1945. The Empire of Vietnam was led by the Nguyễn dynasty and was a puppet state of Japan within the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The Việt Minh, a political league de facto led by the communists, was created in 1941 and designed to appeal to a wider population than what the communists could command. The Viet Minh was supported by the US and its OSS Deer Team.
The Japanese army did nothing to prevent the Revolution arbitrarily as they de facto surrendered to the Allies. There was only a sporadic clash in Thai Nguyen with inconclusiveness. Japan still recognized its puppet as the legitimate government of Vietnam but the Empire of Vietnam refused Japan's request for help because its prime minister did not want to use foreign troops to destroy "patriots" when he did not discover their communist nature. Within two weeks, forces under the Việt Minh had seized control of most rural villages and cities throughout Northern, Central and Southern Vietnam, including Huế (then the capital of Vietnam), Hanoi and Saigon. The rest was in the hands of non-communist people. The Nguyễn dynasty with its puppet government of Trần Trọng Kim collapsed when its emperor Bảo Đại abdicated on 25 August 1945. He was later accepted as an advisor to the government of the Viet Minh and was "elected" a member of its National Assembly, but was later abandoned in China by the communists. The August Revolution sought to create a unified and independent state for Vietnam under the Việt Minh's rule. Việt Minh leader Hồ Chí Minh declared the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) to replace the old Nguyễn dynasty on 2 September 1945, but this government was not recognized as an independent state by French colonialists. The Viet Minh used its non-communist cover to successfully attract or cooperate with many non-communist patriots; but there were non-communist patriots who did not accept communist rule, such as Ngô Đình Diệm and Daiviet Populist Revolutionary Party of Lý Đông A. The foundation of the DRV was the first time Vietnam became a republic. However, the return of France and communist monopoly led to the purges of anti-communist dissidents and as part of decolonization led to the formation of a rival indigenous state of ex-emperor Bảo Đại that was pro-French and anti-communist.[3]
- ^ Political parties conflicts in Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
- ^ "Vo Nguyen Giap | Biography & Vietnam War | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Archived from the original on 2 June 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
- ^ Igarashi, Masahiro (2002). Associated Statehood in International Law. The Hague, Netherlands: Kluwer Law International. p. 24. ISBN 90-411-1710-5.