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cool ideas for my history class research paper?
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How about that time :uncle-ho-2: wrote a Vietnamese declaration of independence largely based on the U.S. one and asked the U.S. for recognition at the end of WWII, but the U.S. ignored it and backed the French recolonization? Kicked off ~35 years of near-continuous war in the country right on the heels of the largest conflict in human history.
All sorts of interesting angles: the infancy of the Cold War (and how it could have been done differently), the U.S. stepping into the shoes of the old European colonial powers, how the U.S. pushed national liberation movements away/towards communism (a pattern that would be repeated in Cuba and elsewhere), the seeds of the modern anticolonial movement, the "blowback" angle of this coming back to bite the U.S. hard (another pattern that would repeat), etc.