... while potentially harming the colonies. This proved certain when the third-world countries began to feel a need for liberation. One of many colonies, Vietnam had long dealt with the restricting laws held against them, resulting in highly motivated spirits to fight for liberation from the French empire, making them ... land, "Since only Europeans could count as competent users of God's nature, only they could own it" (Prashad, 5). The way France mandated Vietnam was too selfish that rebels began to suicide, showing how badly they wanted to escape the captivity France held them in. As the h...

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... and Qing Empires. Russia took all of the silk roads and Central Asia. Russia was right next to British India, and could easily spark a continental war. In Southeast Asia, the French created French Indochina, consisting of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The French made Christianity prominent in these countries. They did not take Siam as it was a good buffer state between British India ... as the grain of rice to tip the scale during the World Wars. Because the French governed Southern Asia, the United States of America was put into the Korean and Vietnam War. When a rebellion sparked in bo...

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... England was felt. In essence, the United States involvement alongside England, France, and the Soviet Union was inevitable. Prior to the US" inception into World War II, a policy known as the Lend Lease Act was invoked in which the US blatantly supported the Allied Powers (UK, France, and the Soviet ... " (Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, English Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) met to hopefully put an end to the war. Yalta is located in the Crimea, a peninsula in the Black Sea. The unconditional surrender of Germany was decided upon here as...

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... other Asian countries. This imperial propaganda concept was made with Japanese occupied territories, such as Manchukuo, Republic of the Philippine, and Empire of Vietnam. An ostensible reason of this sphere was affranchising Asian countries from western colonial powers and creating a new order in East Asia. However, at ... China and other Japanese occupied territories decreased and the trading with Australia, the colony of Great Britain, was completely stopped as they declare the war with Japan. It caused economic hardship, serious food scarcity, and high rate of unemployment as a result...

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... as well as external danger and get the unlimited powers to intervene in the internal affairs of the State. After the 1857 mutiny or First War of Independence, they followed the Divide and Rule policy, in a aim to create a rift between the Indian Hindus and Muslims. They based ... history of fifty years of conflict marked by three full scale wars (1947,1965 and 1971), low intensity wars (Siachin glacier), proxy wars (Kashmir) and "war like situations" (Kargil conflict). The tension between the two countries heightened when in May of 1998, their military confrontation acquired a nuclear di...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate