Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan kimanin shekaru 300 na rabuwa ta hanyar daular daular, Vietnam ta sake kasancewa a karkashin iko guda daya a 1802 lokacin da Gia Long ya kafa daular Nguyễn, amma kasar ta zama mai kare Faransa bayan 1883 kuma a karkashin mamayar Japan bayan 1940 a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II. Ba da daɗewa ba
Japan ta mika wuya a ranar 2 ga Satumba, 1945, Viet Minh a cikin Juyin Juya Halin Agusta ya shiga Hanoi, kuma an ayyana Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Vietnam a ranar 2 ga Satumba, 1945: gwamnati ga dukkan kasar, ta maye gurbin daular Nguyễn. Hồ Chí Minh ya zama shugaban Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Vietnam. Shugaban Amurka Franklin D. Roosevelt ya yi adawa da komawa mulkin Faransa a Indochina, kuma Amurka ta goyi bayan Viet Minh a wannan lokacin.