The evidence provided by the documents of British and French colonies is not definitive.

英国和法国殖民地的文件所提供的证据并不是决定性的。

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Vietnam and Algeria were both French colonies that endured years of civil strife.

越南和阿尔及利亚都曾作为法国殖民地，经历了数年的内战。

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Some 78,000 men from French colonies died in the war, many from Algeria and Tunisia.

来自法国殖民地的约78000名士兵死于一战，还有许多士兵则是来自阿尔及利亚和突尼斯。

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The English,Dutch and French began to plant cacao trees in their own colonies.

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The former French colonies have sculpted this word to their own social and economic reality.

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After the war, the British and French refused to give up their colonies without a fight, and the Soviet Union fueled a Cold War by attempting to restore, and build upon, the older czarist empire in eastern Europe and southern and western Asia.

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When Roosevelt was planning to invade North Africa in 1942, key to his strategy was to minimize French resistance to the seizure of these African colonies before the Germans could grab them.

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