In indochina, resistance to french colonial control was led by a french-educated vietnamese man, –. he was influenced by chinese – who showed him how to organize peasants into revolutionary armies. although he assisted the allies in world war ii, the united states and britain backed french claims to reassert control of their colony after the war. although the french general – did achieve significant military victories against the vietnamese, the french were unable to control the entire countryside. at a french base called –, vietnamese rebels besieged the base and destroyed the french army there in may 1954. ultimately, indochina was divided into three countries: vietnam, cambodia, and –.