the defeated Japanese withdrew from the occupied empire in Southeast Asia at the end of the Second World War, President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed that the days of European colonial mastery were over. In early 1945, he proposed that the French be prevented... from restoring their colonial rule in Indochina by placing the former colony under an International Trusteeship. However, in the last three months of his life, Roosevelt changed his mind and believed that Indochina was in no way prepared

colonial power in Indochina would cause chaos in Vietnam, the territory which the Chinese always regarded as a "rearguard" of the country. Any trouble in Vietnam would lessen the effectiveness of the way in which the Chinese Nationalist Government handled... attempt of the French in restoring her colonial status quo. The Chinese Nationalist Government's intervention led to the signing of the 6th March 1946 Agreement between Viet Minh and France that helped lessen the tension as well as delayed, albeit briefly

plan to govern her former colony. Truman agreed to returned the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos back to France.