H I S T O R Y O F C AM B O D I A French colonial period (1863–1953): French Protectorate of Cambodia and French Indochina French Indochina in 1913. In 1863, King Norodom signed an agreement with the French to establish a protectorate over his kingdom. The state gradually came under French colonial rule . Norodom of Cambodia During World War II, the 1940–41 Franco-Thai War left the French Indochinese colonial authorities in a position of weakness. The Vichy government signed an agreement with Japan to allow the Japanese military transit through French Indochina.[7] Meanwhile the Thai government, under the pro-Japanese leadership of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram, took advantage of its position and invaded Cambodias western provinces.[8] Cambodias situation at the end of the war was chaotic. The Free French, under General Charles de Gaulle, were determined to recover Indochina , though they offered Cambodia and the other Inchochinese protectorates a carefully circumscribed measure of self-government. Convinced that they had a civilizing mission, they envisioned Indochinas participation in a French Union of former colonies that shared the common experience of French culture SHARE BY S K MONOHA duCambodge,Fr,.
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