- Dak Lak during the war against France (1945 - 1954)
Building and strengthening the government and preparing the resistance (August 24, 1945 to February 1946)
+ After gaining government in the August Revolution until entering the resistance against the French colonialists to invade, the people of Dak Lak people only have 100 days of peace to build a new regime, the living a new life (August 2 to November 30, 1945), in that short time, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee and Ho Chi Minh City's President and Secretary of the Central Committee, promoting the Revolution and the masses ethnic groups in Dak Lak and the people of the country carry out major guidelines and policies of the Party and the State to consolidate the revolutionary government, build economy, culture and security - national defense, prepare resistance Against French colonialists to return to invasion.
+ In October 1945, the province organized a festival to unite the nation in the form of a fair of exhibitions, inviting elite delegates of ethnic groups in the form of an exhibition fair, inviting delegates. the elite of the ethnic groups in the province and some areas of ethnic brothers in the Southern Central provinces attended.
+ 08/09/195 enforced Ho President's decree on eradicating illiteracy, the province launched a popular education movement.
+ On September 23, 1945, the provincial Military Committee was established.
+ At the end of September 1945, the South Central Military Committee was established. Actively assisting the Provincial Military Command in the task of building the provincial armed forces, on the other hand, funding for some South Vietnamese units such as North North units and Le Trung Dinh units to join with other Local forces deploy construction of line rooms on roads 14 and 26.
+ In early October 1945, British troops arrived in Nha Trang with the Japanese and released more than a thousand Frenchmen imprisoned here and armed them.
+ At the end of November 1945, Dak Lak province was in the position of French forces surrounded from three sides: Nha Trang in the east, Thu Dau 1 in the south and Stung Treng, Kratie in the west.
+ September 23, 1945, with the support of British troops, the French colonialists opened fire in Saigon in the beginning of the Second Indochina War. At the end of 1945, French troops were helped by the British army, taking Japanese troops to lead the way from the Southeast along the 14th route to the Central Highlands and attacking Dak Lak into the Three-border line room. In late November 1945, after focusing With nearly 10,000 troops of elite infantry, armor, air force and navy, the French Expeditionary Command decided to open a two-pronged attack: the east followed the 1st road to occupy the coastal plain provinces. ; in the west, according to road 14, occupies the Central Highlands provinces.
+ At 9:00 am on November 30, 1945, the provincial pre-station was discovered in the West, and there was a convoy of vehicles from Cambodia running over, headed by a rammed car to clear the way. The province's preparations for fighting are under way, and on the afternoon of December 6, 1945, a French motorized infantry battalion broke into Buon Ma Thuot, after it passed through the SereePook bridge that a group beat. My mine has not collapsed. At the end of December 1945, he returned to the post in line 19 to protect the headquarters in CADA.
+ On January 6, 1946, from the front line to the rear people of the whole country conducted the first general election election of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. On January 25, 1946, the French army used all of the motorized forces to support our last defensive line on Route 26, the M'Drak - Phuong Hoang line. In order to unify the command of the entire Southern Front, in January 1946, the Government government, and the South Vietnam Resistance Committee, chaired by comrade Nguyen Son, under the South Vietnam Resistance Committee, there were three The delegation, in which the 23rd Army was in charge of the Central Highlands provinces, the Hung Viet army was placed under the command of the 23rd Regiment.
+ On March 6, 1946 the Party and our government advocated signing with the Preliminary Agreement. On April 19, 1946, the Conference of Southern Ethnic Minorities was convened in Pleiku town.
+ On June 21, 1946, the enemy gathered a motorized infantry force, artillery and planes from many sides to massively attack the defense line in our 52 km. The battle of Dak Lak's army and people in the Buon Ho line room has gradually undermined the conspiracy to beat quickly and quickly win the French Highlands, helping localities have more time and conditions to prepare for good resistance than.

Building organization, developing forces and launching people's war (1946 - 1949)
+ On July 27, 1946, D'Argenlieu personally went to Buon Ma Thuot to hold a vow of a group of Ede and Mnong chiefs following France on the occasion of the so-called "Western States" autonomy of them,
+ After the Confucian conference broke down due to the stubborn attitude of the French colonialists, to show peace and willingness to take advantage of the time to prepare for the resistance, President Ho Chi took over on the face of the Government, signed with Phap ban Gioi Tam September 14, 1946, in which there are provisions regulating two parties to suspend fighting in the South.