The First Indochina War (also known as the French Indochina War; Anti-French War; Franco-Vietnamese War; Franco-Vietminh War; Indochina War; Dirty War in France; and Anti-French Resistance War in contemporary Vietnam) was fought in French Indochina from December 19; 1946; until August 1; 1954; between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps; led by France and supported by Emperor B?o ?i's Vietnamese National Army against the Vi?t Minh; led by H? Ch?Minh and V?Nguy阯 Gi醦.

Most of the fighting took place in Tonkin in Northern Vietnam; although the conflict engulfed the entire country and also extended into the neighboring French Indochina protectorates of Laos and Cambodia. The war ended in French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.