USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

[SOURCES]
In what area of Asia did France refuse to relinquish its long-standing occupation after WWI?

(A) Bhutan

(B) Malayasia

(C) ** Indochina

(D) Korea

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The term “Indochina” originally referred to French Indochina, which included the current states of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

Concept note-2: -Most narrowly, it is the former French colonies of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, which were collectively known as French Indochina during the colonial period until the Indochina wars.

Concept note-3: -Indochina, also called (until 1950) French Indochina or French Indochine Française, the three countries of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia formerly associated with France, first within its empire and later within the French Union.

Concept note-4: -The French lost their Indochinese colonies due to political, military, diplomatic, economic and socio-cultural factors. The fall of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 signalled a loss of French power. General Vo Nguyen Giap and his Viet Minh had triumphed on the eve of the Geneva Conference.