First Indochina War - the Potsdam Conference
Time: Tuesday Jul 17, 1945
Place: Potsdam, Germany
Details: At the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, the Combined Chiefs of Staff decided that Indochina south of latitude 16° north was to be included in the Southeast Asia Command under British Admiral Mountbatten. Japanese forces located south of that line surrendered to him and those to the north surrendered to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
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