The u. s. involvement in vietnam and the subsequent war was the result of a long legacy of french and u. s. involvement in vietnamese economic, military, and political life. which term best describes that involvement?

Colonialism

Explanation:

In 1887 French developed a colonial system in the regions of Vietnam and named it French Indochina.

Resistance start to erupt from the HoChiMinh and his colleagues from the 1930's, who established Viet Minh (League for independence of Vietnam). HoChiMinh declared Independence of North Vietnam in 1945 based his model of declaration on the

Declaration of independence of America but the move does not go well as the United States saw it as a comm-unist dom-inance which they would not allow and their support to the Southern Vietnam to resist the Northern forces and increase the influence of the United States in far east.

thurgood marshall

explanation: in 1954, thurgood marshall and a team of naacp attorneys won brown v. board of education of topeka, kansas. in this landmark decision, the supreme court held that segregation in public education violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.

answer: i looked it up

explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.