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Why did Japan need to invade French Indo-China, in 1940, if it was under control of Vichy France which was basically a German puppet state? Could Japan not just ask Germany to force France to allow troops there? How much control did Germany have over French territories, if any?

by /u/TheLoneAcolyte in /r/AskHistorians

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