Research On Far-Eastern Policy Of Vichy France

June1940the defeat of France led to the birth of a puppet regime in the history of France-Vichy France. For its cooperation with Germany and the extreme conservative policy agenda It could never erase these stains from French history. In the Far East, French Indochina during World War â…¡ almost followed the same road in Europe, only that Japan had replaced the role of Germany as the object of regional cooperation of Vichy France in the Far East. Of course, we should also see the conflicts and contradictions within the government, which engendered the diffrentiations in the making of the far-eastern policy of Vichy.The main contents of this paper is to elaborate this main problem.This article is divided into six chapters. The first chapter is full of "prelude" to discuss the focus of pre-war French Far Eastern policy, the basic policy of Vichy France continues that of the Third Republic, thus knowing the pre-war society in French Indochina, and the the relationship between France, Japan and China has a crucial effect on understanding of the decision making of Vichy France in this respect.The second chapter discusses the formation of the Japanese southward advance policy and its impact on Far-eastern policy of Vichy France. After the German victory over France, Japan hoped to seize this favorable opportunity to move southward, and Indo-China has undoubtedly become the first obstacle in the southward movement of Japan. However, due to the surviving British and American concerns about Japan at this time, so try to peaceful negotiations to achieve its purpose, in the three Sino-Japanese method of mutual competition, the Japanese finally take the initiative, and signed a "Nishihara-Martin Agreement " with Vichy France Thus japan paced the first step toward the south.During this period, the Far East policy of Vichy France with China went from cooperation to suspicion, and out of Japanese pressure, the heart of its cooperation with Japan has become increasingly exposed.The spindle of chapter III is about the role of Indochina in the outbreak of Pacific War. During this period, the relationship between Japan and France became more complex, the relationship between Vichy France and China changed from suspicion to a further confrontation, meanwhile the the policy of Vichy toward japan derive from compromise to cooperate. Finally with the "Darlan-Kato Agreement", make the Japanese occupation in Indochina legalized, a move that has greatly stimulated the United States, to promote its comprehensive embargo on Japan, but also eventually break the negotiations which led to the breakout of Pacific War.The fourth chapter is about the policy of Vichy during the Pacific War toward China. During this period, Vichy faced new difficulties. Japan once again submitted the new demands to Vichy France.tha latter again yield under pressure. Movement caused by the denunciation of the French interests in China is the issue of gains and losses, making the Vichy French policy toward China appears misplaced. Vichy gouverment shaked between Chongqing and Nanjing governments, but the recognition of Wang regime by Vichy of the fact resulted a clean break with Chongqing Gouverment.The fifth chapter is a summary of wartime franco-nippon cooperation during the Pacific War, the core of the Far East policy of Vichy, franco-nippon cooperation is similar with the Franco-German cooperation in all respects, Both coorparation under military oppression with Japan and Germany. Vichy France also requires the full support of the war economy, despite Vichistes evade the French's responsability in Indochina for his cooperative attitude toward Japan, but it's the reality that Vichy helped a lot in the process of Pacific war for Japan, But Vichy France had to pay a painful price for his compromising policyChapter VI is the end of the article, which focused on the effect of Far East policy of Vichy toward Indo-China Society. Japan's occupation of Indochina caused enormous damage to indochinese,but her failure also provided an independent opportunity for Indochinese.It was under the support of U.S. and China that the development of the nationalist movement growed up in time of war, and finally after the war they went onto the road of independence against France, which led to the outbreak of the First Indochina War. Vichy France's Far East policy had undoubtedly numerous consequences in this period.