French Indochina was officially known as the Indochinese Federation five years after 1947.
The Second French Empire annexed Cochinchina and established a protectorate in Cambodia in 1862 and 1863 respectively
 After the Japanese surrender, the Viet Minh, a communist organization led by H Ch Minh, declared Vietnamese independence, but France subsequently took back control of French Indochina with the help of the British

