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Find which statement is not true.
Answer: B
The statement that is not true is Siam was a French colony in the late 19th century.
Siam (Thailand) was the only country in Southeast Asia never colonised. It survived as a buffer between British Burma and Malaya and French Indochina, although it gave up territory to both powers.
The other statements are true. After the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 a direct hotline was set up between Washington and Moscow in 1963. Balkan nationalism grew as the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires declined. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 began Japan's industrialisation and Westernisation.
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