The Vietnamese famine of 1944-1945 struck northern Vietnam, then part of French Indochina under Japanese occupation, from October 1944 into late 1945. A drought and pest infestation reduced the 1944 winter-spring rice harvest by roughly 20 percent, and a subsequent flood during the harvest season deepened the crisis, while both French and Japanese forces forcibly requisitioned rice and maize from farmers to feed their own troops and, after Allied bombing cut coal shipments south, to burn as fuel in power stations. Estimates of the death toll range from roughly 400,000 to 2 million, with Ho Chi Minh citing the higher figure of 2 million deaths in his September 1945 proclamation of Vietnamese independence.
Facts
Classification
Type/ClassificationAgricultural Famine or Disaster 1 Milestone Year Connections
Associated With
Rice, Crops Japanese and French requisitioning of rice and diversion of paddy land to other crops are central to accounts of the Vietnamese famine of 1944-1945.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Vietnam, found in there.
Sources
1. Vietnamese famine of 1944-1945 (Wikipedia)
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The Vietnamese famine of 1944-45 (Vietnamese: Nạn đói Ất Dậu, famine of the Ất Dậu Year or Nạn đói năm 45, the '45, due to most of the deaths occurring in 1945) was a famine that occurred in northern Vietnam in French Indochina during World War II from October 1944 to late 1945, which at the time was under occupation by Japan and administration by Vichy France, a collaborator of Nazi Germany in Western Europe.
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The Vietnamese famine of 1944-45 (Vietnamese: Nạn đói Ất Dậu, famine of the Ất Dậu Year or Nạn đói năm 45, the '45, due to most of the deaths occurring in 1945) was a famine that occurred in northern Vietnam in French Indochina during World War II from October 1944 to late 1945, which at the time was under occupation by Japan and administration by Vichy France, a collaborator of Nazi Germany in Western Europe.
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