Response When studying the history of the European Empires, it must be assessed as to why they collapsed in such a short amount of time. ... 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...

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France has acted, and the consequences of her action may be immense. ... Nearly five years to the day after the unconditional surrender of Germany, France is now taking the first decisive step towards the construction of Europe and is associating Germany in this venture. ... Meanwhile, they have failed to learn English (or German or French) very well and, to make matters worse most of their original jobs have gone." ... In Western European history, the majority of tensions have primarily been between Germany and France, dating back to the Napoleonic War of the early 19th Century, and followed...

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