 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Vachishandisa mikana yacho, Thailand yakatanga Hondo yeFrench-Thaimuna October 1940. Japan yakapinda somurevereri muhondo yacho muna May 1941 uye yakabvumira mubatanidzwa wayo kutora mapurovhinzi ane muganhu muCambodia neLaos. Muna July 1941, sezvo Operation Barbarossa yakanga yabvisa zvinobudirira tyisidziro yeSoviet, boka rehurumende yechiuto yeJapan raitsigira Maodzanyemba Strategy rakasundira mberi basa reFrance Indochina. 