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Asia Pacific 1975: Communist Victory in Indochina

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1975

Pathet Lao capture Vientiane, winning Laotian Civil War

Rome annexes Pontus to Cappadocia*

1899

Britain and Germany partition West African neutral zone

1899

Samoa partitioned between Germany and US

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