In the Early Modern Era, The Scientific Revolution changed the way individuals viewed themselves and the world around them. ... Ideals of nationalism and representative government spread throughout Europe, with the first major wave beginning in France in 1789. The French Revolution lasted until 1815, when the European conservative order re-established itself. The French Revolution was an influential period of social and political upheaval inspired by liberal and radical ideas. ... The Post-Colonial Period marked the end of formal empire rule as we had previously known, with approximately...

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Once they had begun funding the French struggle against the nationalist movement in Vietnam, the Americans saw an imminent opportunity to possibly apply their own colonial model there, but "called upon the French or the Chinese for the raw intelligence information that informed their reports to Washington," (Bradley 94). ... [lacking] traditions of indigenous governance," with French rule being an insult to that injury (83, 84). ... What we can surmise from this was that sympathy for the Vietnamese people was secondary – if not a means to an end -- to global strategic considerations at th...

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The French Union (the new name for the Empire) of 1946 is a clear example of desperation to keep the Empire together with its indissoluble unity.1 The matters of France, its overseas territories, and associated states and territories, which was the new concept for Indochina (simply because they underestimated the ongoing insurgency to French imperialism), were mostly now part of metropolitan France. ... The French control was assured through the President of France being the President of the Union, and a significant French representation in the Supreme Council and the Assembly of the Union. Pe...

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