indochina

The US felt supporting France in Indochina was a lesser evil than letting Western Europe fall to Soviets.

France was involved in colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria (the latter involved lots and lots of torture).

We are happy to sell you standup desks built from wood from french colonial Indochina for US$1500.

They would have had their Indochina and Algeria had they tried to keep it all.

As for claiming that the French army tortured in Indochina and Algeria due to a lack of denazification, that's plain silly.

France used their membership in a Western European military alliance as a bargaining chip for the recapture of their Indochina colonies.

I posted this before: Clearly the Cambodian and Indochina people went through an awful period.

Everyone neighbouring country has fought wars in indochina over the years.

My great-uncle was a French officer in Indochina and, through fuzzy circumstances to do with his previous service, learnt to speak a few of the local dialects, although this was not widely known.

On nomenclature, Indochina Sea would perhaps be a reasonable candidate for a more honest toponym, being as it is both suggestive of the general area and adequately distanced from any specific modern political entities.

> wood from french colonial Indochina This sounds very nice.

If socialism had successfully caught on in latin america, indochina and more of the gulf states had fallen under soviet influence, it would have been lights out for western economies, which largely rely on raw materials imported from those regions.

Indochina was the name for the eastern projection of the upper mainland Southeast Asian peninsula region under French domination - hence, "French Indochina".

You "lost" Indochina and Algeria, pretty much all of your "possessions" everywhere else.

S.-caused deaths in Indochina run into the millions." "By 1975, an estimated 10 percent of the Kampuchean population -- 600,000 -- had already died as a result of the Vietnam War.

Too bad he was foolish enough to help start an unwinnable, useless war in Indochina.

This is how a hotel break-in is more serious than a secret war in Indochina.

Indochina Sea has a nice ring to it and is mostly accurate.