Summary 1. Indochina After the French - Consequences of the Vietnamese Victory Against the French French Rule: When did the French gain control of: Vietnam: Between 1800s-1885 Cambodia: 1867-1900 Laos: 1887-1893 How did the French gain control of each country? Vietnam: The southern section became a French ‘colony’ and the central and middle were protectorates. Cambodia: French protectorate following a struggle with Thailand for control of the country. At
independence. The end of the Cold War, however, led to a major expansion in the late 1990s. Vietnam became a member of ASEAN on 28 July 1995; Laos and Myanmar on 23 July 1997; and Cambodia on 30 April 1999. The Bangkok Declaration of 1967 adopted seven aims and purposes for the organisation. These are: a) economic growth, social progress and cultural development; b) regional peace and stability; c) economic, social, cultural, technical, scientific and administrative collaboration; d) mutual assistance
Communism is an economic system in which the government controls all means of production. Communism at one point was very similar to socialism, that is until Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924). When Lenin became leader he believed that socialism could not be achieved unless there was some type of violent revolution. Lenin thought that the best way to stop resistance was to create “terror” -- mass executions, slave labor, and starvation. With all the chaos during the last two years of World War I, Lenin’s
Vietnam War Survey 1. The Vietnam War, called the American War by the Vietnamese, officially began November 1st, 1955, but has its roots dating back to the French Indochina War. Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries had been colonized by the French as early as 1874, then called French Indochina. During the French Indochina War, Ho Chi Minh, the revolutionary leader of the Indochinese Communist Party (PCI), led a group of Nationalist and Communist-minded group called the Viet Minh against their
S.S. Cold war INTRODUCTION The Cold war was a period after WWII when the USSR and the United States engaged in close political and military confrontation when the threat of global nuclear war was imminent constantly. The Cold War essentially started on the first of January 1947 when the United States and its allies disagreed with the USSR over how to divide Germany and escalated into several proxy wars in southeast Asia such as the Vietnamese and Korean Wars. The Cold War is called the Cold war
movements going on in response to the Vietnam war. Terry Gilliam said that they couldn’t handle the violence of the scene, but eventually came around when they realized that the scene was more about the crazy attitude of the Black Knight than the violence. When Arthur and Patsy left the Black Knight, and the Black Knight called them “yellow bastards,” this may be a racial slur against Asians. Yellow can also mean cowardly, but since this took place during the Vietnam war it may have a double meaning.
The story America is a story of dreamers. Dreams of America began as colonialists recognized the increasing separation between themselves and England and their lack of representation in Parliament. Several factors allowed the colonialists to defeat the strongest army in the world at the time including, help from the French and knowledge of the land, but perhaps what was most important was the passion the colonialists had for their dream of the future. After the American Revolution the colonies became
International Monetary System before Bretton Woods: When the World War 1 took place, the standard of 190 countries were greatly affected and suffered in exchange rate flexibility. In the ongoing decade, the Britain tried to fix the situation by restoring the gold backup, making efforts to improve the standards by adopting the old prewar (before World War 1) par value of its pound. However, the par value of the Britain pound kept increasing and became overvalued which started to cause problems for
1. Concept of armed conflict. Conflict is one of the things that occur with the highest frequency in human’s life. It can be the struggle or the opposition in the needs, interests, thoughts… In daily life, in a definite family, a son can clash with his father only because of the fact that he hates being forced to take care of his younger sister. This is only a small and low level of conflict example. Besides, it can be concluded that conflict is likely to escalate to a higher stage which means for
Runaway inflation, shortages of raw materials and lack of capital blocked economic recovery. There was large difficulty for Japan to pay for import resulting in deficit, which situation did not stop until 1960s. From 1950s to 1970s, Japanese economy recovered very fast because of various policies devised by the government. Among those policies, there was a system of industrial policies established during that time, whose goal was to improve and promote the industrial