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/ˌɪndoʊˈtʃaɪnə/
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NOUN
- a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam
How To Use Indochina In A Sentence
- Vietnam invaded Cambodia, consolidating Soviet hegemony over all of Indochina.
- Mr. Nixon had said repeatedly that the American war in Indochina would soon be over.
- Nazi victories in Europe had the effect of stimulating Japanese ambitions even further; after the fall of France Japan occupied northern Indochina and signified its desire to establish a “coprosperity sphere” throughout eastern Asia—a euphemism for Japanese hegemony. Interpretations of American History
- The preposterous image of a benign West showering its goods on a grateful Africa / India / Indochina/wherever would surely have no purchase in a society where informed debate was the daily order.
- Eg . Mr . Nixon has said repeatedly that American war in Indochina would soon be over.
- Specialists on Indochina were considerably less optimistic during the early days of the Truman administration.
- Older and wiser now, I am well aware that our own country has committed many crimes, some on a scale approaching those of Germany and Japan: the near extermination of Native Americans, the mass, centuries-long enslavement and cultural and physical destruction of millions of African slaves, the use of nuclear bombs on civilian targets, the decade-long saturation bombing and herbicidal poisoning of most of Indochina … Obama, Seeing Darkness, Conjures Up the Mists of Time
- The Japanese intended to capture Allied airfields in east China and to open an overland supply route stretching from Pusan, Korea, to Saigon, French Indochina.
- The US success in Indonesia was a more important foreign policy victory, with control of the strategic naval chokepoint the Straits of Malacca at stake, than its subsequent failure in Indochina.
- On April 13, 1975, a Schanberg story datelined from Phnom Penh was headlined: ‘Indochina without Americans: For Most, a Better Life.’