She sat with black delegates at a conference.
We have GPS guided missiles big enough to knock out entire city blocks and can see you with infrared or night-vision cameras 30,000 feet in the air and rain down 30mm cannon rounds at 3,000 rpm or fire a volley of incendiary missiles and burn you out of the trench and then blast you to hell and back a few dozen times.
Britain still had a substantial amount of colonies and gradually decolonized overtime.
The French wanted older colonies back in their possession such as South-East Asian nations of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
Actually, the civil war make their relationship became much worse.
Because of the civil war, the ally has to lose a lot of resources for war supplies and equipment. This led to a situation where the allies no longer able to pay the treaties that they promisd to pay to the Sioux, which eventually ended up in conflict between the two group.