The western mountains in between Burma and India forming the java arc consists of pinnacles as high as 12,000 feet, the Bay Of Bengal and the Andaman Sea at the southern boundary, on the south east Burma shares an extended border with Thailand. ... The Chindwin drains the western portions of the country, and the Salween and Sittang Rivers drain the regions in the east. ... Lord Louis Mountbatten and members of the South-East Asia command authorised Wingate which was the a major general to lead an assault into north central Burma and capture Myitkyina and mogaung and repel the Japanese tha...

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The Soviet Union organized its East European satellites into Warsaw Pact in 1955. ... Cuba, South Africa, Israel, India, Pakistan, Brazil, and Argentina were not among countries that signed NON-proliferation treaty in 1968. Argentina and Brazil engaged in a prestige race to become South America's first nuclear power but nuclear programs were bankrupting therefore both countries dropped their programs. ... South Africa started its nuclear program 1974 because of Soviet expansionist threat but in 1990 the threat disappeared therefore South Africa was the first and only state to give up t...

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First American military aid arrived on South Vietnam soil in 1955, just on the rising wake of cold war. ... By 1950's South-East Asia became place where interest of superpowers, such as United States, China and USSR, as well as fading colonial empires like France and United Kingdom, created deadly tensions. ... Cuba, Algeria, China, and some African countries already fall into the communist hands, and many others could follow. Pro-communist guerilla movements spread across South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. ... Government overstates danger, and understates, or did not report tru...

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The Australians advanced from the south coast and succeeded in stopping their advance and eventually driving them back and off the island of Papua New Guinea. ... The first was ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, United States) which was formed in 1951 and the second was SEATO (South-East Asia Treaty Organization) which was formed in 1954. ... This was when the allies moved in to stop it because they believed it would spread all through South-East Asia to Australia. ... An example of this was the peacekeeping force Australia sent to East Timor when they wanted to become independent from Indonesia, ...

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Britain got colonial possessions that it had occupied during the war, including Malta, Ceylon, and South Africa. Holland lost Ceylon and South Africa but got Belgium. ... In First World War the Austro-Hungarian, Turkish, and czarist were eliminated and Japan was confined to Far East. ... Whole of Africa and Asia became nations from colonies and the centre of international politics shifted from old world to new world. ...

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Vietnam had been divided into two, in the midst of a communist administration in the North under Ho Chi Minh and an egalitarian government in the South under Ngo Dinh Diem. ... Despite their rivalry for leadership of the communist bloc of nations, the Soviet Union and China collaborated to support North Vietnam's effort to destroy South Vietnam. Ho used guerilla warfare in South Vietnam, piloted by Viet Cong divisions, with the target of bringing together the country under communist decree (Westdad, Cuban and Vietnamese Challenges). ... They finally had to pull out of South Vietnam after...

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The Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Ardennes, known to the United States as the Battle of the Bulge, was the greatest battle this country had or would participate in. At its height more than 500,000 American forces were engaged with nearly 600,000 German soldiers. The Americans were at tim...

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