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The following list shows the colonial powers following the end of World War II in 1945, their colonial or administrative possessions and the date of decolonisation. Japan: Manchuria , Northern China (1945/1946) Philippines (1945/1946) Burma (1945/1948) North Korea (1945/1948) South Korea (1945/1948) Taiwan (1945/1949) Malaysia
In October 1956, a year after the Republic of Vietnam replaced the State of Vietnam, South Vietnam formed its own parliament and created its own constitution. [216] On 20 May 1955, French Union forces (French forces) withdrew from Saigon to a coastal base and on 28 April 1956, the last French forces left South Vietnam.
Early studies of decolonisation appeared in the 1960s and 1970s. An important book from this period was The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Martiniquan author Frantz Fanon, which established many aspects of decolonisation that would be considered in later works. Subsequent studies of decolonisation addressed economic disparities as a legacy of ...
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 [A 1] – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies.
Vietnam, A History. New York: Viking Press, ISBN 0-14-026547-3; Michael P. Kelley. 2002 Where We Were In Vietnam, 1945–1975. Hellgate Press. ISBN 1-55571-625-3; Gabriel Kolko. 1994. Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience London: Phoenix Press. Guenter Lewy. 1978. America in Vietnam. New York: Oxford ...
North and South Vietnam therefore remained divided until the Vietnam War ended with the Fall of Saigon in 1975. After 1976, the newly reunified Vietnam faced many difficulties including internal repression and isolation from the international community due to the Cold War, Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and an American economic embargo. [1]
Open fighting broke out in March 1973, and North Vietnamese offensives enlarged their territory by the end of the year. Two years later, a massive North Vietnamese offensive conquered South Vietnam on April 30, 1975, and the two countries, which had been separated since 1954, united once more on July 2, 1976, as the Socialist Republic of ...