Event Japanese coup d'etat

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Was the creation of the Empire of Vietnam, a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan during World War II.

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  • March 1945: The Empire of Vietnam was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan.
  • April 1945: The staunchly pro-French King Sisavang Vong was imprisoned and forced by the Japanese, and at much urging from Prince Phetsarath, into declaring the French protectorate over his kingdom over while accepting the nation into the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere on 8 April 1945.
  • March 1945: The young King Norodom Sihanouk proclaimed an independent Kingdom of Kampuchea.