In January 1946, the Viet Minh won elections across central and northern Vietnam. Once hostilities had ended, the British handed over the territory to the French. On the urging of the Soviet Union, Ho Chi Minh initially attempted to negotiate with the French, who were slowly reestablishing their control across the area, although still under British control until hostilities had ceased. The British landed in the south rearming the small body of interned French forces as well as parts of the surrendered Japanese forces to aid in retaking southern Vietnam, as there were not enough British troops immediately available. The parallel divided Indochina into Chinese and British controlled zones (See Timeline of World War II (1945).). Nationalist Chinese troops entered the country to disarm Japanese troops north of the 16th parallel on 14 September 1945. As the French did not have the means to immediately retake Indochina, the major powers agreed that the British would take control and troops would occupy the south while Nationalist Chinese forces would move in from the north. The major allied victors of World War II, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union, all agreed that the area belonged to the French. Just as the First Indochina War-which emerged from the complex situation following World War II-and the Vietnam War both exploded from the unresolved aftermath of political relations, the Third Indochina War again followed the unresolved problems of the earlier wars. The Vietnamese government refers to the conflict as the "War against Chinese expansionism" ( Chiến tranh chống bành trướng Trung Hoa), while the Chinese government calls it the "Self-defensive counterattack against Vietnam" ( 对越自卫反击战). The Sino-Vietnamese War is also known as the Third Indochina War in Western historiography.
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