The colonization of the original 13 colonies of modern day USA influenced the creation of the most technologically advanced, economically fueled, and politically savvy superpowers in history. ... In the latter portion of the 20th century a group of English colonies in the New World felt that they were being taxed unfairly. Their mother nation was across an ocean had sparse, if any, representation in the colonies. ... If, in fact, the southern states actually had won the war, Britain would have been one of their two staunch allies, simply for the reason the US was once a colony of hers. ...

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Try to picture for just a moment what the United States would be like if during our civil war, a pro-slavery, but otherwise uninvolved, country had started aiding the southern confederates but in the process destroyed our country's villages, land, and people. ... However; after World War Two had ended, Ho Chi Minh, (a pro-unification and independence leader of Vietnam), and his supporters the Viet Minh declared independence of France and attempted to unify the French-Vietnamese colonies. ... This greatly angered the North and the Viet Cong who grew even more aggressive toward the southern...

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With the election of 1876, southern reconstruction was considered complete, the mechanisms for settling, building and integrating western territories were in place, and the beginnings of a new age of industrialism were in evidence. ... In the last quarter of the 19th century, these nations, and occasionally a few others, actively sought colonies to provide raw materials for industry, markets for products and strategic locations in which to base military defense outposts. ...

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Australia at first supported this, like when they helped Indonesia become independent from the Dutch colonial forces, which was a change in policy from before the war when they would have supported their traditional ally, Britain, which had colonies in the region. ... When the flow of British migrants slowed they did not look to Asia to keep migration but to southern Europe (Greece, Italy) and Eastern Europe (Baltics, Yugoslavia). ...

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