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| 1931–35 |
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| In the troubled times after the smashing of the Nghe-Tinh Soviet, Trân Van Giau (1910–69?) worked as secretary of the Indochina Communist Party. When Ta Thu Tau (d. 1945), a Trotskyist active in the south, returned to Vietnam from France in 1933, they formed a united front, running for Saigon city office in 1935. He was forced underground in 1938 during a period of repression by the authorities. | 1 |
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| 1933 |
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| The Self-Reliance Literary Group urged all educated Vietnamese to the cause of a simpler writing style, egalitarianism, nationalism, and individualism, and attacked what it deemed outmoded Confucian notions. Its first journal was banned by the French (1936). | 2 |
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| 1939, May |
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| The Hoa Hao sect, a syncretic religion combining various East Asian strains, was founded by Huynh Phu So (b. 1919). Early on, it became especially popular in the Mekong River delta as a prognosticating faith. | 3 |
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| Aug. 23 |
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| The announcement of the Nazi-Soviet nonagression pact led soon to war in Europe and the fall of France the next year. With the installation of the collaborationist Vichy regime, Indochina fell under its nominal control. | 4 |
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