Coming out of World War II, the government of the United States fostered an inflated view of its capabilities in foreign affairs. Once they had begun funding the French struggle against the nationalist movement in Vietnam, the Americans saw an imminent opportunity to possibly apply their own colonial model there, but "called upon the French or the Chinese for the raw intelligence ... the case when he states how these beliefs were reaffirmed when the Americans had arrived there, since "among most of the ten million people of rural South Vietnam, terms like democracy, Communism, imperialism,...

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... A significant part of the French Empire which was lost due to nationalism was Indochina, established in 1887. With a history of emerging nationalism in Vietnam where French rule was not desired, the French had to remove three Emperors from 1885 to 1917 and this did not solve their problem. There ... to the Dutch Empire, not willing to allow it. Not able to provide enough troops themselves, due to the impact of the Second World War, they looked upon their allies. The Australians occupied eastern Indonesia without struggle, however, the British encountered opposition from autonomous groups ...

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