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| rdfs:comment | - The Franco-Thai War was a brief interstate war that erupted in early 1941 when the nationalist military government of Thailand annexed parts of the French Indochinese colonial protectorate of Cambodia and then resumed again after the Second World War in early 1946 when the French forced their return.
- The Franco-Thai War (1940–1941) was fought between Thailand and Vichy France over certain areas of French Indochina that had once belonged to Thailand. Negotiations with France shortly before World War II had shown that the French government was willing to make minor changes in the boundaries between Thailand and French Indochina. Following the Fall of France in 1940, Major-General Plaek Pibulsonggram (popularly known as "Phibun"), the prime minister of Thailand, decided that France's defeat gave the Thais an even better chance to regain the territories they had lost during King Chulalongkorn's reign.
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| Strength | - 18
- 20
- 134
- 12000
- 38000
- 60000
- ~100 aircraft
- ~140 aircraft
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| Commander | - Jean Decoux
- Plaek Phibunsongkhram
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| Territory | - Disputed territories in French Indochina ceded by Vichy France to Thailand on Japanese decision
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| Casualties | - 1
- 2
- 8
- 21
- 22
- 36
- 54
- 178
- 222
- 307
- 321
- Land:
- Sea:
- unknown wounded
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| Result | - Indecisive
*Japanese-mediated ceasefire
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| combatant | - Vichy France
- * French Indochina
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| abstract | - The Franco-Thai War was a brief interstate war that erupted in early 1941 when the nationalist military government of Thailand annexed parts of the French Indochinese colonial protectorate of Cambodia and then resumed again after the Second World War in early 1946 when the French forced their return.
- The Franco-Thai War (1940–1941) was fought between Thailand and Vichy France over certain areas of French Indochina that had once belonged to Thailand. Negotiations with France shortly before World War II had shown that the French government was willing to make minor changes in the boundaries between Thailand and French Indochina. Following the Fall of France in 1940, Major-General Plaek Pibulsonggram (popularly known as "Phibun"), the prime minister of Thailand, decided that France's defeat gave the Thais an even better chance to regain the territories they had lost during King Chulalongkorn's reign. The German occupation of metropolitan France made France's hold on its overseas possessions, including Indochina, tenuous. The isolated colonial administration was cut off from outside help and outside supplies. After the Japanese invasion of Indochina in September 1940, the French were forced to allow Japan to set up military bases. This seemingly subservient behavior convinced the Phibun regime that Vichy France would not seriously resist a confrontation with Thailand.
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