In the summer of 1945, popular discontent
reached a climax and revolutionary action involving both
political and armed struggle proliferated throughout the
country, from north to south, in villages and cities,
and among the ethnic minorities in the mountainous
regions.
On August 31, 1858, a French naval
squadron attacked Danang, launching several episodes of
a war of colonial conquest waged by French imperialism
between 1858 and 1884 and resulting in the total
annexation of the country.
Towards the end of the 14th century, a
great crisis shook the country. The Ming court, then
reigning in China, took advantage of this to invade Dai
Viet and to impose a form of direct rule which was to
last for twenty years (1407-1427). However, the invaders
encountered stiff resistance from the beginning, and
national independence was eventually wrested back in
1427 by Le Loi, the founder of the Le Dynasty.
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