Talk:French Indochina in World War II

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Latest comment: 6 years ago by 2600:1700:D720:3860:AC24:7A75:F809:1875 in topic The list of countries attacked on December 8th is lacking

The list of countries attacked on December 8th is lacking

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The Philippines, Wake, Midway, and Guam was attacked on December 8th, yet no mention is made about that. What is up with that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:D720:3860:AC24:7A75:F809:1875 (talk) 12:15, 11 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

Requested move

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The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: move. -- tariqabjotu 04:35, 19 August 2013 (UTC)Reply


Vietnam in World War IIFrench Indochina in World War II – I moved this article to the title (with no adverse comment), but the move was reverted (I believe wrongly) but another user after nearly a month with no discussion. The issue at stake is avoiding anachronism. I accept that the borders of Indochina and Vietnam were subtly different, but putting an country which did not then exist into a historical event still makes no sense. By extension, we'd have fundamentally re-write almost all "Country X in war y" article to reflect modern borders which are less relevant to the theme than the borders which existed at the time. I'd also add that, in an article using the terminology "Indochina" almost throughout, using both terms in tandem (if unexplained, as it is at the moment) is confusing to the casual reader. Brigade Piron (talk) 18:58, 10 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

  • Support. The term "Vietnam" was in use at the time, but the relevant unit for a history during World War II is either French Indochina or Laos/Cambodia/Tonkin/Annam/Cochinchina. The Cambodian article ought to be a sub-article of this one, as should be the articles on the Japanese invasion in 1940 and coup in 1945. There is no problem dividing up the article based on geography, but to make the unit of focus Vietnam is a bit anachronistic—and splits Laos and Cambodia off from the topic unnecessarily, which doesn't help the reader grasp the situation. Srnec (talk) 14:16, 12 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
  • Support; the modern Vietnam didn't exist at the time, and the current title is anachronistic. I would, however, favour expanding the article to cover more of French Indochina. bobrayner (talk) 19:45, 17 August 2013 (UTC)Reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
For all those involved in this discussion, I have started a move request for Japanese occupation of Indonesia suggested above. I would welcome you comments. Brigade Piron (talk) 09
12, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Internment of the French?

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The article does not mention if the French were placed in internment camps after the Japanese occupation, similar to other territories occupied to the Japanese (or have I missed it?). It should be mentioned somewhere id this occurred, and if not, that too should be stated, because it would separate French Indochina from other territories occupied by Japan.--Aciram (talk) 11:52, 10 April 2016 (UTC)Reply