THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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England
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Japan
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United States
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France
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Detailed explanation-1: -France laid claim to the land area known as Indochina (now Vietnam) in the 1900s.
Detailed explanation-2: -1887: France imposes a colonial system over Vietnam, calling it French Indochina. The system includes Tonkin, Annam, Cochin China and Cambodia. Laos is added in 1893.
Detailed explanation-3: -What we now call Vietnam was once owned and run by France. From the late 1800’s to 1954, Vietnam was part of a French colony called French Indochina.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -Indochina comprises five countries: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam. These coun-tries share natural resources centering on the Mekong River, which flows from north to south through the center of the Indochinese peninsula, and are closely related economically, culturally and historically.