'Main Features of French Rule in Indochina\r'

'Main Features of cut overtop in Indochina By 1893 France had colonised exclusively of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and renamed it the cut Indochinese Union. The cut were oppressive and self-interested. They ran Indochina as a profit making make believe and tried to ensure it paid for its make administration. Colonial governor Paul Doumer do the deal comport for the cost of their own rule by increasing customs duties and direct taxes. He created official monopoly on salt, alcohol, and opium.Doumer concent yardd on building railways and lighthouses plot denying the lot arrivement and education. Before french rule 80 per cent of Vietnamese were literate in chinese entirely by the rest of 1940 only 20 per cent of boys were at school and a much smaller per cent of girls. The cut exploited Vietnamese resources and labour. They paid the people minimal wages and strong pointd them to relieve oneself in horrific conditions. Vietnamese bring in was turned over to the prod uction of rice, rubber, opium, spices and former(a) commodities to export for French profit.The French alter traditional land self-command and the Vietnamese peasants had to take out loans with the interest rate of up to 70 per cent to pay the rent of there land and homes. The French also introduced a currency arranging which was poorly understood and not certain by the peasants who had always used bartering. With the compound in land ownership came a massive change in Indochinese mixer structure. This destroyed village life which was the primary(prenominal) Indochinese social unit. The village was the centre of their religious, pagan and economic lives and was the most important administrative unit in Vietnam.This destruction of the social system along with land ownership changes resulted in a small elite group group of Vietnamese land owners who collaborated with the French and left the 90% of the population of the peasants ladened and in poverty. The French ruled Indoch ina with force and used repressive methods to end any renegadelion. They divided Vietnam into three administrative divisions of Tonkin, Annam, and Cochinchina. A number of Vietnamese groups tried to rebel and were executed by the French. The majority of Vietnamese were Buddhist and the French tried to deepen everyone to Catholicism.Anybody who rebelled against the French priests was imprisoned or executed. With the extravasation of World War Two France surrendered to Germany and allowed japan to administer Indochina. This resulted in the destruction of horticulture and widespread famine. To struggleds the end of WW2 Japanese soldiers seized the bug out of the Vietnamese rice crop and French officials with held the remaining supplies from the peasants. This resulted in a major famine where 2 million people died. After WW2 the French tried to get Indochina supported by the United States and Britain.Relations betwixt the French and the Vietnamese deteriorated as let out indep endence leaders Ho Chi Minh and General Giap began to fight for the rights of the Vietnamese. When the French broke the August agreement and bombed Haiphong killing sixsome thousand civilians the first Indochinese war began. This war of attrition saw the Vietnamese develop skilled guerrilla tactics in the face of superior French elevate power. By 1954 this conflict ended in the battle of Dien Bien Phu with a decisive Vietnamese victory. The Geneva conference that began the day after(prenominal) battle ended resulted in the end of French rule in Indochina.\r\n'