Topic summary
Civil conflicts in Vietnam (1945–1949)

Communists:
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Co-belligerent:
France (1946)
Nationalists:
Nationalist Parties Front (1945–1946)
(1947-1949)
National Protective Youth Union (from 1947)
Vietnam Revolutionary League
Đại Việt Duy Dân Đảng (1945-1946)
Vietnam National Restoration League
Vietnam Evangelical Church
- Vietnam Catholic Federation (from 1947)
Hòa Hảo
Tây Ninh Holy See
Bình Xuyên
Pure Land Buddhist Laity Association
Trotskyist:
Autonomous Cochinchina (1946–1948)
Provisional Central Government of Vietnam (1948–1949)
Allied mission: (1945–1946)
Thaddeus Lê Hữu Từ
Trần Văn Lý
Trần Trọng Kim
Ngô Đình Khôi
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Yuitsu Tsuchihashi(POW)
Hisaichi Terauchi
- People's Army of Vietnam
- Viet Minh National Guards
- Vanguard Youth
- Religious militias
- Bình Xuyên resistance forces
Total: 100,000
- Tonkinese (1946)
Duy Dân militias: 2,000
Diocese of Phát Diệm defense forces: 4,000
Hòa Hảo armed forces: Unknown
Caodaist armed forces: 6,000 (1949)
Bình Xuyên: 10,000
/French Foreign Legion: Total 110,000
National Revolutionary Army: 200,000 (1945-1945)
Viet Guard (Việt binh đoàn): ~10,000 (1948-1949)
: ~11,000
National Revolutionary Divions: Unknown
Civil conflicts in Vietnam were a series of events characterized by political violence and civil war which took place soon after the end of World War II. It lasted from the August Revolution in 1945 until the establishment of the State of Vietnam in 1949, during which the communist-led Viet Minh suppressed and terrorized both nationalist and Trotskyist groups. According to David G. Marr, it was an era of hatred, betrayal, and murder.