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589:(Great Laos) in January 1941, slamming Thai policies over the Lao people and the ceded lands while promoting a sense of identity across Laos. It ran poetry competitions that celebrated Lao culture and history, and ran columns that reintroduced the ‘glorious lineage’ of the modern Lao from the time of
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encouraged the rise of a Lao nationalist movement, the
Movement for National Renovation, which sought to defend Lao territory from Thai expansion. A French report stated "If the protectorate government does not succeed in creating an autonomous Laotian individuality—at least among those who have
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in 1941. In the south of the country later in the war, the Lao-Seri movement was formed in 1944 which unlike the
Movement for National Renovation was not supportive of the French and declared a "Laos for Laotians" policy aimed at achieving outright independence.
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received education—then they will feel themselves increasingly attracted towards the neighboring country and this situation will create new difficulties". More schools were built in Laos during this period than in the last 40 years and the
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Maurice Roques signed an agreement on 21 August 1941 which attached the provinces of
Xiangkhouang and Vientiane to the Kingdom of Luang Prabang, and placed the protectorate on the same footing as
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Thailand should they become subordinate to another royal house. The territorial loss had already weakened French hold in the region. Savang Vatthana and
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a few months earlier. The subsequent occupation then occurred gradually, with
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in the power vacuum, which took control of the government and reaffirmed the country's independence on 12 October 1945.
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Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina
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Short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan, c. 1945
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768:A Short history of Laos, the land in between
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511:. This would erupt into a full
296:• Unified Kingdom of Laos
2514:History of Laos (1945–present)
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1561:Reformed Government of China
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2489:1945 establishments in Laos
1940:Battaglione Azad Hindoustan
1622:Republic of the Philippines
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675:French protectorate of Laos
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484:and established his own
459:entered French Indochina
420:Kingdom of Luang Prabang
95:"Hymn of the Lao People"
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2021:Russian Liberation Army
1983:Kalmykian Cavalry Corps
1945:Belarusian Home Defence
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2017:Russian collaborators
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2003:Romanian Land Forces
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774:. Allen & Unwin.
635:Indochinese colonies
534:(still being called
438:) was a short-lived
286:• Independence
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2033:Security Battalions
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1585:Kingdom of Thailand
937:Vietnamese invasion
892:French protectorate
654:surrender in August
616:Liberation of Paris
544:house of Champassak
525:Battambang province
521:Sainyabuli province
329:French Indochinese
189:Japanese occupation
2043:Slovene Home Guard
1744:Occupied Singapore
1732:Occupied Hong Kong
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309:Lao Issara
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981:Geography
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509:provinces
502:Vientiane
436:ルアンプラバン王国
163:Religion
44:ルアンプラバン王国
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311:takeover
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149:Japanese
113:Thailand
51:Japanese
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1397:Index
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