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World War Two - The Power Vacuum
World ware two had a very important impact on the course of events in french ando china. Some historians even argue that it was really in asia that the two sides of world war two connect. The japanese wanted to create their own empire, attack the americans,. Then they will overthrow a number of colonial powers in south east asia. And eventually they would overthrow the french in indo china. So this world war really overturned colonial empires. It's into this power vacuum that our hochi ming is going to step he was in southern china.
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