Civil conflicts in Vietnam (1945–1949)

Civil war in Vietnam, 1945–1949
	Part of Aftermath of World War II and Indochina wars
	; A Viet Minh soldier and a non-communist nationalist soldier, wearing a salacot and calot respectively, accuse each other of being traitors. Drawing from a nationalist-affiliated newspaper in Huế, June 1947.
Date	16 August 1945 – 2 July 1949
Location	Vietnam, French Indochina
Result	Viet Minh victory Destruction of the Trotskyists; Virtual dissolution of Vietnam Revolutionary League, Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, Đại Việt Nationalist Party, and Đại Việt Duy dân Đảng; Surviving opposition partisans rallied for Bảo Đại and joined the State of Vietnam after Élysée Accords;
Belligerents
Việt Minh Indochinese Communist Party; Buddhist Association for National Salvation; Pro-Viet Minh Caodaists; Catholic Association for National Salvation; French Northern Indochina Command (1946)	Nationalist Parties Front (1945–1946) Đại Việt QDĐ; Việt Nam QDĐ; Vietnam Revolutionary League; Đại Việt Duy dân Đảng; Vietnam Catholic Federation (from 1947); Vietnam National Restoration League Hòa Hảo; Vietnamese Democratic Socialist Party; Caodaists; Bình Xuyên; Pure Land Buddhist Laity Association Trotskyist Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina (1946-1948); Provisional Central Government of Vietnam (1948-1949) Republic of China (1945) French Union (1948–1949)
Commanders and leaders
Ho Chi Minh; Trường Chinh; Nguyễn Lương Bằng; Huỳnh Thúc Kháng; Phạm Văn Đồng; Hoàng Quốc Việt; Trần Văn Giàu; Lê Giản; Võ Nguyên Giáp; Chu Văn Tấn; Nguyễn Bình; Dương Bạch Mai; Thích Trí Độ; Thích Thanh Tứ; Cao Triều Phát; Phạm Bá Trực Philippe Leclerc; Jean Sainteny ; Jean Crépin	Trương Tử Anh ; Vũ Hồng Khanh; Nhất Linh; Nghiêm Kế Tổ; Nhượng Tống †; Nguyễn Tôn Hoàn; Trần Văn Tuyên; Phan Kích Nam ; Khái Hưng ; Nguyễn Hải Thần; Trương Đình Tri †; Lý Đông A †; Thích Tâm Châu; Trần Văn Lý; Cường Để Huỳnh Phú Sổ ; Lê Quang Vinh; Trần Văn Soái; Nguyễn Bảo Toàn; Phạm Công Tắc; Trần Quang Vinh; Lê Văn Viễn; Lâm Văn Hậu Tạ Thu Thâu ; Phan Văn Hùm Lê Văn Hoạch; Bảo Đại; Nguyễn Văn Xuân; Trần Văn Hữu; Đinh Xuân Quảng; Lê Văn Hoạch; Nghiêm Xuân Thiện Lu Han Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu; Jean Étienne Valluy; Émile Bollaert

Civil conflicts in Vietnam after World War II were political violence and civil war that lasted from the August Revolution in 1945 until the declaration of the State of Vietnam in 1949, during which the communist-led Viet Minh suppressed nationalist and religious factions.