Throughline: The Emergence of Southeast Asia
Topic: Reassertion of Colonial Rule
Essential Question: How did Nationalists respond to reassert of colonial control of SEA?
- Admin:
- Review of 2007 SA2 SBQ (Bring your 2007 SEA SA2 Question paper)
- Review:
- How did nationalist activism react to colonial re-assertion?
- What were colonial strategies to re-assert control?
- Malaya: Experiments for Independence
- Spence Chapman's Force 136
- Harold MacMichael's BMA: Malayan Union & Federation of 1946
- Templer's 1952 Amendment Bill
- Vietnam: Exclusion of Independence
- Bao Dai's Empire of Vietnam vs. Ho Chi Minh's August Revolution
- Thierry d'Argenlieu's State of Vietnam under the French Union
- British disarmament in Cochin-china vs. Chinese disarmament in Tonkin
- Understanding Goals:
- How different were nationalist responses?
- Malaya: Who is the nationalist?
- MCP Emergency
- Militant (1948-1951): Terror campaign
- Moderate (1951-1955): Selective killing
- Marooned (1955-1960): Baling Talks
- UMNO Ascendancy
- Members System (1948-1951)
- Municipal Elections (1951-1955)
- Merdeka Talks (1955-1957)
- Vietnam: Who isn't a nationalist?
- Viet Minh in Hanoi
- Committee of the South
- Geneva Conference
- First Indochina War
- Performances:
- Present a timeline of the political development of post-WWII Malaya and Vietnam.
- Assessment:
- Political developments in post-war Southeast Asia were largely constitutional. How far do you agree? (13)
- Pls come prepare with information for a meaningful discussion.
