Enquiry Question: Why did a "separation" take place between Singapore and Malaysia?
PERIOD I
- Review:
- Why did the PAP want merger with Malaya?
- Political reason: independence
- Security reason: communists "threats"
- Economic reason: decline of entrepot trade
- Party reason: electoral promise of 1959
- Why did Malaya NOT want "merger" after 1961?
- Security reasons
- Demographic reasons
- Economic reasons
- Why did Malaya want "merger" after 1961?
- Security reasons: instability of PAP government
- Territorial reasons: enlargement of Malaysia
- Demographic reasons: inclusion of non-chinese
- Why were there oppositions to the formation of Malaysia?
- Disputed territories: the Philippines
- Neo-colonialism: Indonesia
- Domestics politics: Barisan Socialis
- Understanding goals: Why was Singapore expelled from Malaysia
- Bad ideas: Merger
- Bad start: Malaysia Day 1963
- Bad moves: Singapore elections & Federal Elections
- Bad blood: common market & Race riots
- Bad mouths: Malaysian Solidarity Campaign
- Badman: who's the real "ultra"?
- Bad news: Singapore is out!
- Performances:
- Explain & evaluate the factors that brought about "separation" with this Priority Chart:
- Is "separation" the best term to describe what happened on 8 August 1965?
