The United Nations replaced the League of Nations. The League of Nations was a cross-country entity that was composed of many countries in Western Europe and also elsewhere that was supposed to regulate certain aspects of life that were important for all countries on Earth. However, it turned out there were certain key shortcoming of this union of nations, and later the United Nations were developed.
The Vietnamese suffered Great Depression in the 1930s. This led to fall in the prices of rubber and rice, rise in rural debts, unemployment and rural uprisings. Since the provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh got the roughest end of this deal and had an old radical tradition, whenever the colonial system came under pressure, these regions were the first to rise up in rebellion. Hence, they were referred to 'electrical fuses' of Vietnam.
Five signers were captured by the British and brutally tortured as traitors.
Thomas Heyward, Jr., Edward Rutledge and Arthur Middleton, all of South Carolina, were captured by the British during the Charleston Campaign in 1780. They were kept in dungeons at the St. Augustine Prison until exchanged a year later.
