Why were the Dutch and French colonies of Southeast Asia so hard to recover after the war?
a) During the war most of these colonies had fallen to the Japanese, who upon surrendering handed power over to locals rather than to the old European rulers.
b) The Dutch and French had already had a great deal of difficulty administering these colonies for decades before World War II.
Consider This: What happened at Dien Bien Phu in 1954? See 14.4.1: The Difficulty of Letting Go.
c) Large Soviet armies arrived at the end of the war and insisted that the colonies be disbanded.
Consider This: What happened at Dien Bien Phu in 1954? See 14.4.1: The Difficulty of Letting Go.
d) The French and Dutch preferred to leave their colonies rather than risk large-scale immigration of the locals back to France or the Netherlands.
Consider This: What happened at Dien Bien Phu in 1954? See 14.4.1: The Difficulty of Letting Go.
a) During the war most of these colonies had fallen to the Japanese, who upon surrendering handed power over to locals rather than to the old European rulers.
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