GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Domino Theory, Northern Thailand
24 Sep 2018
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World war 2: expansion of the japanese colonial empire. Controlled all of southeast asia and most asia. Started ghting the japanese: communist parties organize forest-based insurgencies, gaining experience and skills. Local o cials put in charge of government they don"t want to give up on this power. Post world war 2: countries where communist parties take control at some point. 1949: chinese communist part take control, nationalist party retain control of taiwan. Domino theory: map used to justify the us war in vietnam (most famous), laos, and. French tried to take over vietnam again and vietnam decided to ght back, french gave up. The partition 1947: violent division into india and pakistan. East pakistan became independent from the other pakistan and became bangladesh. Obama signs bill elimination negro", oriental" from federal laws. The term oriental" has a negative association (racism) Orientalist scholars in the 18th and 19th centuries. About studying and trying to understand the east .
