HIST 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Nato, Truman Doctrine, Atlantic Charter
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Pick up from previous class wednesday november 24, 2016. Reminder that this week and next will be a wrap up, ending on wednesday of next week, handing out the final essay assignment and the third exam will be available december 7. Going back to the 19th century, vietnam as well as other countries in southeast asia had been colonies of france. World war ii, as france came under nazi occupation. Thus the french were unable to maintain control in southeast asia, as japanese forces were unable to take control there, including. However during the ladder parts of wwii those colonies were liberated mostly by. American forces and as that war ended, a vietnamese nationalist by the name of hochi men, on. So it invoked that section of the atlantic charter and he also invoked the american declaration of independence that the vietnamese were doing what. Americans had done back in 1776, in declaring their independence from a colonial power.
