Both, Ho Chi Minh and Jomo Kenyatta were leaders of movements which wanted the right to (2) self-determination for their nation. Ho Chi Minh, for example, was an important figure for the Vietnamese resistances during the Vietnam war which was fought against the Americans. He was the leader of the communist part of Vietnam and with that also held the view that nations have the right to self-determination, as this is a commonly held view in communistically oriented individuals.
the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. The treaty was signed at Brest-Litovsk (Polish: Brześć Litewski; since 1945 Brest), after two months of negotiations. The treaty was agreed upon by the Bolshevik government to stop further advances by German and Austro-Hungarian forces. According to the treaty, Soviet Russia defaulted on all of Imperial Russia's commitments to the Triple Entente alliance
Northerners lost interest in the Reconstruction era because the Northerners got tired of trying to help fix the South's social problems and the Northerners wanted to start working on fixing their own social problems.
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Rural life was much more lonely and often times involved close knitt communities of farmers while urban life was much more broad and offered a greater amount of jobs and people.