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A. Vietnam is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and Malaysia across the sea to the southeast.
C. The South China Sea stretches from China and Taiwan in the north to Singapore in the south and from Vietnam in the east to the Philippines in the east. China has claimed almost the entire body of water, which has large oil and gas reserves.
D. The Chinese empire ruled Vietnam for more than a thousand years before it rebelled in 939. France colonized the country in 1862, and Japan invaded it in 1940 during World War II. After the war, Vietnamese forces began fighting for independence from the French.
C. Hungary was ruled by Soviet-backed communists from 1947 until 1989 when it became a democratic parliamentary republic.