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- Ahmad Bakhsh Sindhi [r]: (1917 - 2000) Chief Law and Justice Minister in Rajasthan, India from 1983-1985. [e]
- Air campaigns in Cambodia and Laos [r]: U.S. military air operations, both overt and covert, over Cambodia and Laos; some before and most during the 1962-1972 Vietnam War [e]
- Ajanta Caves [r]: A series of caves in Maharashtra state, India, some used by Buddhist monks in the 2nd century BCE and others in the 5th century CE, containing important Buddhist art. [e]
- Asia [r]: The largest continent in both land area (with 30% of Earth's land area) and population (with 4 billion people, or 60% of Earth's population). [e]
- Bangladesh genocide [r]: the systematic mass killings that resulted in the secession of East Pakistan to form Bangladesh in 1971. [e]
- Bangladesh [r]: Country in southern Asia, bordering the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and India. [e]
- Bhutan [r]: Landlocked constitutional republic in the Himalayan Mountains. [e]
- Bollywood [r]: The Indian film industry, based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. [e]
- British Empire [r]: The worldwide domain controlled by Britain from its origins about 1600 until independence was granted to the dominions in the 1920s, India in 1947, and the other colonies about 1960. [e]
- Buddhism in the United States [r]: [e]
- CIA activities in the Middle East and South Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chiang Kai-shek [r]: A Chinese revolutionary and Leader of the Republic of China and Kuomintang from 1928 until his death in 1975. [e]
- China-Burma-India theater [r]: (CBI), fought in China, Burma and India, created by the U.S., Britain and China and operated 1942 to 1944 with Chiang Kai-shek as nominal Supreme Commander. [e]
- Dien Bien Phu [r]: Site in northern Vietnam of a 1954 decisive battle that soon forced France to relinquish control of colonial Indochina. [e]
- Ganges River [r]: Add brief definition or description
- India [r]: Republic in South Asia; the world's largest democracy. Borders Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, China, Nepal, Pakistan [e]
- Indonesia [r]: A country in Southeast Asia. [e]
- Kalarippayattu [r]: Ancient martial art that has its origins in the Kerala area of Southern India, and can be traced back to the Vedic period. [e]
- Kashmir [r]: The northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. [e]
- Kerala [r]: A State of south-western India. [e]
- Kontum Province [r]: A province of central Vietnam, bordering Quang Nam Province on the north, Quang Ngai Province on the east and Gia Lai Province on the south [e]
- Lakshadweep [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Laos, History [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Laos [r]: A country in Southeast Asia that was part of French Indochina, located northeast of Thailand and west of Vietnam, with short borders to Burma, Cambodia and China [e]
- Manning Clark [r]: Australian historian; author of the six-volume History of Australia, published 1962-1987. [e]
- Mekong Delta [r]: A major agricultural area of southern Vietnam, requiring considerable irrigation engineering in spite of its extensive river network [e]
- Merrill's Marauders [r]: The common nickname for the U.S. Army 5307th Provisional Unit, codenamed GALAHAD, of 3000 men that operated in Burma, in the China-Burma-India theater (CBI) of World War II in 1944. [e]
- Montagnard [r]: A general name for a group of tribal societies traditionally in the highlands of Southeast Asia, primarily in Vietnam but also Laos and Cambodia [e]
- National Security Agency and Southeast Asia, 1954-1961 [r]: U.S. signals intelligence and communications security activity prior to major ground commitments [e]
- Nghe An Province [r]: A province in the narrowest part of Vietnam, between Laos and the South China Sea, known as the birthplace of Ho Chi Minh; current economy largely based on production of construction materials [e]
- Operation Lam Son 719 [r]: During the process of Vietnamization, the first major ground action carried out by Army of the Republic of Viet Nam soldiers operating independently of U.S. ground troops. It was a failure. [e]
- Pakistan [r]: Country in southern Asia, established as a Muslim state split from India in 1947, bordering the Arabian Sea to the south, India to the east, Iran and Afghanistan to the west, and China to the north. [e]
- Panthera tigris (Tiger) [r]: Large carnivorous feline mammal of Asia, having a tawny coat with transverse black stripes, a member of the Felidae family, and the largest of the four 'big cats' in the genus Panthera. [e]
- Pathet Lao [r]: A Communist revolutionary organization, allied with the Viet Minh and Democratic Republic of Vietnam, which began as part of coalition and anticolonialist governments in the 1950s and 1960s, and gained control of Laos in 1975 [e]
- Persian language [r]: An Indo-European language spoken primarily in Iran and Afghanistan. [e]
- Quang Nam Province [r]: A province in the central part of Vietnam, with coastal area on the South China Sea and a western border with Laos [e]
- Quang Tri Province [r]: A province in present-day north central Vietnam, which was the northernmost province of South Vietnam, and remains one of the most war-damaged parts of the country [e]
- Republic [r]: A form of government in which political power and authority is derived from the citizenry, and not from a monarch, whether hereditary or "tyrannical" (ie, a dictator). [e]
- Shah Jahan [r]: Fifth ruler of the Mughal Empire in India, from 1628 until 1658. [e]
- Southeast Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Souvanna Phouma [r]: One of three princes of Laos, politically active after the Second World War and into the 1960s, who was associated with a neutralist ideology and served, between coups, as Prime Minister [e]
- Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [r]: The principal worldwide agreement for controlling the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons technology, without inhibiting the peaceful use of nuclear energy [e]
- United Arab Emirates [r]: Federation of the seven arabian states Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeirah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain. [e]
- United Nations [r]: An international organization that was founded in 1945 with the mission of preventing international war, protecting human rights, supporting social progress and justice, and helping with economic progress. [e]
- Vedas [r]: Oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism. [e]
- World War II, Pacific [r]: The part of World War II, 1937-45, with Japan defeated by the U.S., China, Britain, Australia, the Soviet Union and other Allies. [e]
