Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan Yaƙin Faransa da faɗuwar Jamhuriyar Faransa ta Uku, mulkin mallaka na Indochina (Vietnam na zamani, Laos da Kambodiya) ya wuce zuwa Vichy Faransa. A watan Satumbar 1940 sojojin Japan sun shiga wasu sassan Indochina; a watan Yuli 1941 Japan ta mamaye dukkan yankin. Thailand ta yi amfani da wannan damar don dawo da yankunan da aka rasa a baya, wanda ya haifar da Yaƙin Franco-Thai tsakanin Oktoba 1940 da Mayu 1941. Japan ta yi amfani da Indochina don kaddamar da wani ɓangare na mamayewar Malaya
Wannan da hare-haren da aka kai wa Pearl Harbor da sauran yankunan Birtaniya da Amurka sun haifar da yakin Pacific, wanda ya kawo yakin duniya na biyu zuwa Indochina.