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for these newly independent states
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in Africa, in Asia and indeed in North Africa as well.
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And, so, World War Two accentuated the independence movements that
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developed after World War One.
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The case of Vietnam is of course just classic in that,
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and you had a well-organized nationalist communist movement ready
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to assume the mantle of the movement for Vietnamese independence.
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And as you'll know,
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Woodrow Wilson espoused nationalism
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as a way to determining the existence or the creation of states.
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And, so, Wilson and his American successors
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were kind of caught in a trap