
Dutch East Indies (Indonesia): After World War II, national leaders declared Indonesia’s independence from the Netherlands.Indochina had provided rubber, tin, timber, tungsten, and bauxite 1 ^1 1 start superscript, 1, end superscript to the French empire since the mid-nineteenth century. French Indochina (Vietnam): Another popular nationalist leader, Ho Chi Minh, led Vietnamese forces against Japanese, French, and American occupying armies from 1941 until his death in 1969.That's why Britain, France, and Israel invaded, in a failed attempt to return control of the canal to the British. He nationalized the Suez Canal, an important waterway linking the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea-because whoever controlled the canal also controlled oil shipments from the Middle East to Europe. He redistributed land from wealthy landowners to farmers.


In the European theater, Adolph Hitler wanted to rule Europe, providing the German people with more Lebensraum-"living space." He also wanted access to the resources required to compete with economic giants such as the U.S.

Like most sequels, World War II was more of the same, but worse.
