Nationalist Party of Vietnam

The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng or the Nationalist Party of Vietnam, abbreviated VNQDĐ or Việt Quốc, is a nationalist and moderate socialist political group that sought independence from French Colonial Rule. The group's origin lies in the early 20th century, when a group of young Hanoi-based intellectuals began publishing revolutionary material. In 1927, after the publishing house failed because of French harassment and censorship, the VNQDD was formed under the leadership of Nguyễn Thái Học. Modelling themselves on the Chinese Kuomintang (Nationalist Party of China), the VNQDD gained a large following from intellectuals and teachers, but not peasants and workers. Their core values are the same as the Kuomintang, including the government structure, the Three Principles of the People,

From 1928 onward, the VNQDD has many events of publicity, through assassination of French officials. However, this would come to an end when in February 1929 with the Bazin assassination, the killing of a French labour recruiter widely despised by local Vietnamese people. Although the perpetrator was unknown, the French authorities blamed the VNQDD, forcing the organization underground to evade capture, resulting only 30 of the party's some 1500 members to be detained by French authorities, while the rest escaped to the North of the nation.

In 1932, the VNQDD restarted operations in the North, one of the such is the Saigon incident, when 15 French soldiers will killed in a firefight between VNQDD and the soldiers on 3th July 1932. In 13th July 1932, French authorities declared the VNQDD as a criminal organization and all affiliated with it would be faced with a death sentence. This prompted the VNQDD to silence their operations.

During the Japanese occupation of Vietnam, the VNQDD frequently sabotaged Japanese infrastructure and assassinated Japanese officials, until the Japanese surrender in 1945. In the chaos that followed, the VNQDD expanded their operations throughout the nation, and contacted the Kuomintang. Some members traveled to Kuomintang bases, where they were trained for an armed uprising against the growing menace of Ho Chi Minh's Indochinese Communist Party and the French Colonial Administration.