Vietnam poverty 1945

*Direct Cause: The consequences of the war in Indochina. The powers involved as France, Japan and the United States intervened in Vietnam and caused many disasters affecting the economic activities of the Vietnamese. Fluctuations in the military and political deluge occurred caused the North has traditionally rice shortage should be as hungry.

* Indirect Causes: Is the worst of French colonialism in Vietnam, with the economic reform measures in order to serve the regime and the war demand, due in France when it was at war and are also being invaded.

* Natural Causes: Natural disasters, floods caused crop failures in the North.

*After the global economic crisis in 1930, France turned to protectionist policies and trade monopoly in the exploitation of Indochina colonial policy. Indo entire population must work to improve the economic value of the area, but only the French, a very small minority of Vietnamese and American people closer to France or an urban population benefited. Consequently, before World War II, Vietnam remains a poor and backward country compared to many other Asian countries. When World War broke out, France was weak. In East Asia, Japan began to expand and look at the first Indochina as progressive control over South Asia and China.
Between 1940, when France occupied by Germany and Japan to put pressure on France and the following year into Indochina. Vietnam's economy caught up in war, with France and Japan compete for control of economic. It comes to reason that Japan forced the people of Vietnam in the bottom instead of growing rice to serve the war, but in fact the French have conducted this work before, namely the shrinking area of arable crops sub such as maize, potatoes, cassava, to cotton, jute, hemp, or industrial plants. Production of rice and paddy crops in the north of the strongly reduced by the cultivated area has been narrowed.

#Disaster

Outside the context of war, political and economic situation in the North weather also contributed to the momentum created famine. Northern Crop drought and insect damage, making winter-spring production in 1944 declined by 20% compared with the previous harvest year. Then the floods that damaged crops should start spreading famine. Grim winter of 1944-45 instead also be a cold winter makes the crops at the cost side, the factors that create evil pile amid World War.

#Consequences
No exact figures on the number of people have died from starvation, but some sources estimate that from about 400,000 to 2 million people died of famine in northern Vietnam at this time. May 1945, seven months after the outbreak of famine in the north, Lieutenant's Court in Hanoi, Hue court ordered the Northern Province reports of casualties. 20 provinces have reported deaths from starvation in the north is more than 380,000, died of disease - no known cause - is over 20,000, a total of 400,000 own north. October 1945, as reported by an official of the French military in Indochina as it was then Minister Mordant half a million people dead. France Governor Jean Decoux then wrote in his memoirs about the period of rule in Indochina, "Well la barre de l'Indochine" - is there a million starving North. Vietnam Historians estimate that between 1 to 2 million.