Answer:
surrounded the French at Dien Bien Phu, a French stronghold for 57 days.
Explanation:
The French decisively lost the First Indochina War in 1954 when Communist fighters for the People's Army of Vietnam "surrounded the French at Dien Bien Phu, a French stronghold for 57 days."
The French surrendered fully and removed their colonial presence on May 7, 1954.
There is also a 1954 Geneva agreement that defines the whole of surrender activities between the two nations.
Answer:
U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry opened American trade relations with Japan in 1854. President Theodore Roosevelt brokered a 1905 peace treaty in the Russo-Japanese War that was favorable to Japan. The two signed a Commerce and Navigation Treaty in 1911. Japan had also sided with the U.S., Great Britain, and France during World War I.
During that time, Japan also embarked on forming an empire modeled after the British Empire. Japan made no secret that it wanted economic control of the Asia-Pacific region.
By 1931, however, U.S.-Japanese relations had soured. Japan's civilian government, unable to cope with the strains of the global Great Depression, had given way to a militarist government. The new regime was prepared to strengthen Japan by forcibly annexing areas in the Asia-Pacific. It started with China.
Explanation:
A)a new defensive tactic known as trench warfare
Trench warfare allowed the war to drag on for long periods of time because of the stalemates that ensue from the opposing armies refusing to give up the land under their controls, resulting in high casualties in no man's land.
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