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August 1945
Bao Dai Abdicates
Three days after Japan unconditionally surrenders after the atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan transfers control of Indochina to the Viet Minh. Two days later, Bao Dai abdicates.
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