The First Indochina War, also known as the Indochina War in Franceball or the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnamball, was an armed conflict fought between the communist Viet Mihn against the French Fourth Republicball and his colonial empire in French Indochinaball following the end of World War II. The war was the first of a series of decolonization conflicts that would occur throughout the Cold War and would forshadow the more famous Vietnam War and USABall's humiliating defeat, much like Franceball's.