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Who invaded and seized French Indochina during World War II, and captured Minh?
The Soviet Union
The United States
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The Imperial Japanese
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The Imperial Japanese forces invaded and occupied French Indochina, including Vietnam, during World War II. The Japanese captured Ho Chi Minh, a Vietnamese revolutionary and future leader of North Vietnam, in 1940. Minh was imprisoned until 1945 when he was rescued by the Viet Minh, a communist-led resistance movement that he had helped to found.
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