HIS242H1 Lecture 7: End of European Empires (HIS242)
Document Summary
The legacy of wwii: after the war, the colonial powers did not have enough power to take down the asian, wwii showed the colonial that the imperialist powers were not invincible. This was not the case because the gaining of the colonizing and decolonizing was not easy and was fought hard by the europeans. Ho chi minh (1890 - 1969) > proclaimed the independence of vietnam. He was a vietnamese communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945 55) and president (1945 69) of the democratic republic of vietnam (north vietnam. He was a key gure in the foundation of the democratic republic of vietnam in. Vietnam became a colony of france in the late 19th century, but during world war ii, Japan occupied vietnam: the vietnam war continued until 1975 > vietnam became a major cold war battle ground. Algeria: fln (national liberation front, algerian war (1954 - 1961) > was a war between france and the algerian national.
