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NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011


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Backed by Chinese troops, and drawing on Chinese funds, the VNQDD and the Dong Minh Hoi opened newspapers, and launched a political campaign against the Viet Minh and the DRV government. The resultant situation in North Vietnam in autumn, 1945, is depicted in Figure 4.

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Map of the political situation in North Vietnam in September–October 1945.

Source: Cooper, Killigrew, and LaCharite',
Case Studies in Insurgency and
Revolutionary Warfare: Vietnam
1941–1954
(Washington:SORO,1964)

FIGURE 4

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