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July 1945
Potsdam Conference
Two months after Germany surrenders to the Allies, representatives of the Allies at the Potsdam Conference give Britain the task of disarming the Japanese in South Vietnam; the Chinese Nationalists are to do the same north of the 16th Parallel.
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