COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
IMPERIALISM IN ASIA
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Vietnam
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Burma
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Laos
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Cambodia
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Detailed explanation-1: -1863-Cambodia becomes a protectorate of France. French colonial rule lasts for 90 years.
Detailed explanation-2: -When French explorers arrived in Cambodia in the early 1860s, they were seeking to expand French commercial interests in Southeast Asia, and believed that Cambodia, or more precisely the Mekong, were a gateway to China.
Detailed explanation-3: -But France colonizes Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to proclaim the French Indochina Union in 1887. Colonization has an enormous impact on the populations and economies of the region.
Detailed explanation-4: -France took direct control over the provinces of Indochina–Annam, Tonkin, and Cochinchina (which together make up modern day Vietnam), Laos, and Cambodia.