March 11/12: Studying Independence Movements through Primary Source Documents

Check-in with Group:

1. Copy/paste your 1-paragraph summary of your topic(s) you are responsible for -- paste this into the GROUP DBQ PACKET.  
2. As a group, read over the paragraphs and edit, as necessary, so that the background information has good cohesion and flow (a reader should be able to have a good understanding of what the conflict was about, how it ended and what the country is like today from reading this). Include your sources used for the summary paragraphs.

• ​Sample Group DBQ Packet (see "Historic Background" essay) as an example of what your group will be creating.

Classwork:

1. Individually, work on finding your image source and text source. Ideally, your image and text should be primary sources (use secondary sources only when primary sources are not available or relevant to use).
2. You may use the websites found within this presentation. You are also encouraged to do a search on your own on academic sites like ABC-CLIO. Internet Research Tips (lists of scholarly sources)
3. Be sure no one else in your group is using the same image or text source.
4. Include the MLA citation for your image and text sources.  MLA Citations - Quick Reference

Helpful Resources for Finding Primary Source Documents:

Cambodia - Background research

• World History Textbook page 981
• Pol Pot (History.com)
• Cambodia Independence (Britannica.com)
• The Road to Khmer Independence (Cambodia.org)
• The First Indochina War (Britannica.com)

Cambodia - Primary Source Documents:

• Primary Source Documents - Decolonization in Asia (Tufts University library resources)
• History: Southeast Asia - Primary Sources (Berkeley.edu)
• Cambodian Genocide Program (Yale.edu)
• Southeast Asian Collections of Images and Text (wisc.edu)
• Indochina Primary Source Documents (U.S. National Library of Congress)
• “Cambodia: A Gamble That Failed: Sihanouk and the Right, 1969-March 1970” (Stanford.edu)
• Exiting Indochina: U.S. Leadership of the Cambodia Settlement & Normalization of Relations with Vietnam  (PDF Book)
• Cambodian Constitution   and 1991 Paris Peace Agreements

Egypt - Background research

•  WhatWhenHow: Independence and Decolonization, Middle East (What-When-How.com)
• Egyptians Campaign for Independence, 1919-1922 (swartmore.edu)
• Egypt: World War I and Independence (Britannica.com)
• Egyptian Independence 1919-22 (nonviolent-conflict.org)
• After the First World War: the 1919 Egyptian Revolution (Open.edu)

​Egypt - Primary Source Documents:

• UNESCO Archives: Africa Under Colonization, 1880-1935, PDF (Sahistory.com)
• UNESCO Archives: Africa Since 1935, PDF Book (sahistory.com)
• African Primary Source Documents (Yale.edu)
• African Studies Primary Sources (Georgetown.edu)
• All African People’s Conference: Resolution on Imperialism and Decolonization, 1958 (ABC-CLIO)
• Decolonization and the Cold War: (PDF Book, skip to chapter 8--it is specific to decolonization of Egypt)
• North Africa: From Antiquity to the Present (PDF Book, go to page 168 for “Egypt’s Struggle for Independence”

Ghana Background research

• World History Textbook page 1013
• Ghana’s Decolonization, reference article (ABC-CLIO)
• Ghana’s Independence (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• Gold Coast (Ghana) Gains Independence (South Africa History Online)
• Ghana’s Independence: Triumph and Paradox (JSTOR)
• History of Ghana’s Independence (Today Ghana News)
• Ghana: 60 Years After Independence (Aljazeera)

​Ghana - Primary Source Documents:

• UNESCO Archives: Africa Under Colonization, 1880-1935, PDF (Sahistory.com)
• UNESCO Archives: Africa Since 1935, PDF Book (sahistory.com)
• African Primary Source Documents (Yale.edu)
• African Studies Primary Sources (Georgetown.edu)
• All African People’s Conference: Resolution on Imperialism and Decolonization, 1958 (ABC-CLIO)
• The Decolonization Reader (PDF Book excerpt; provides details about the rise of nationalism to end colonization in Ghana)
• Gold Coast Ghana Gains Independence (http://www.sahistory.org.za)

Indonesia - Background research

• World History Textbook pages 1008
• Indonesian war of Independence (newworldencyclopedia.org)
• Independence for Indonesia (Historytoday.com)
• 1820-1950 Indonesia and Decolonization (rijksmuseum.nl.en)

​Indonesia - Primary Source Documents:

• Primary Source Documents - Decolonization in Asia (Tufts University library resources)
• History: Southeast Asia - Primary Sources (Berkeley.edu)
• U.S. White House Memo on Foreign Relations in SE Asia (memo strategizing aid to Indonesia to fight for independence; U.S. State Dept. primary resource)
• Indonesia Collection (Cornell.edu)
• Southeast Asian Collections of Images and Text (wisc.edu)
• The West New Guinea Debacle: Dutch Decolonization and Indonesia, 1945-1962 (PDF Book)
• Indonesian Independence Fact Sheet 62 (naa.gov.au - Australian government website with archives documents of government records related to Indonesia’s Independence)

Kenya Background research

• Kenya - Overview of History (ABC-CLIO)
• World History Textbook page 1013
• Kenya - WWII to Independence (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• Kenya Gains Independence (The Learning Network, New York Times)
• How Did Kenya Gain Independence? (HistoryHit.com)
• Kenya Celebrates 50 Years Independence (Aljazeera)
• Kenya - WWII to Independence (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• All African People’s Conference: Resolution on Imperialism and Decolonization, 1958 (ABC-CLIO)

Kenya - Primary Source Documents:

• UNESCO Archives: Africa Under Colonization, 1880-1935, PDF (Sahistory.com)
• UNESCO Archives: Africa Since 1935, PDF Book (sahistory.com)
• African Primary Source Documents (Yale.edu)
• African Studies Primary Sources (Georgetown.edu)
• All African People’s Conference: Resolution on Imperialism and Decolonization, 1958 (ABC-CLIO)
• Jomo Kenyatta: speech on Kenya Africa Union, 1952 (ABC-CLIO)
• Decolonization and Independence in Kenya, 1940-1993 (PDF Book)
• Britain and Kenya’s Constitutions, 1950-1960 (PDF Book, includes details about the process of writing Kenya’s constitution and establishing independence)

Korea - Background research

• World History Textbook page 976-979
• Early Colonialism and the Rise of Nationalism and Identity, 1910-1919 (UBC.edu, University Lecture Slides)
• Independence Movement (Korea.net)
• Korea’s Independence, 1947 (Historic Films Stock Footage Archive, Youtube video)
• Korea’s March 1st Movement (Arirang News video)

Korea- Primary Source Documents:

• Primary Source Documents - Decolonization in Asia (Tufts University library resources)
• CIA: The Korean Collection (CIA.gov)
• Korea (ABC-CLIO)
• Korea’s rise in Nationalism (JSTOR)
• Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea, 1920-1925 (PDF Book, covers details about the rise of the nationalist movement in Korea including the March First demonstrations against Japan; begin on page 3 Intro)
• Korean Theatre Under Japanese Occupation (PDF Book, begin on page 3 and 4)

South Africa - Ending Apartheid - Background research

• Anti-Apartheid Movement (ABC-CLIO)
• Apartheid (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• Early Apartheid (FacingHistory.com)
• The Harsh Reality of Life Under Apartheid (History.com)
• South Africa: 25 Years Since Apartheid (Origins, OSU.edu)

South Africa - Primary Source Documents:

• UNESCO Archives: Africa Under Colonization, 1880-1935, PDF Book (Sahistory.com)
• South Africa History: Archives (http://www.blacksash.org.za/, contains primary and secondary sources)
• UNESCO Archives: Africa Since 1935, PDF Book (sahistory.com)
• African Primary Source Documents (Yale.edu)
• African Studies Primary Sources (Georgetown.edu)
• All African People’s Conference: Resolution on Imperialism and Decolonization, 1958 (ABC-CLIO)
• “A Dry White Season”, novel on Apartheid in South Africa (Galegroup.com database)
• South African History Online (sahistory.org.za, contains primary and secondary source documents)

Vietnam Background research

• World History Textbook page 978 and 981
• Decolonization of French Indo-China (cvce.eu/en)
• This Day in History: Sep 02, 1945 Vietnam Independence Proclaimed (History.com)
• World War II and Independence (Britannica.com)
• The First Indochina War   and The Second Indochina War (Britannica.com)
• The Two Vietnams (Britannica.com)
• French Colonization - The Vietnam War  and Ho Chi Minh (Discovery UK, Youtube video)

Vietnam - Primary Source Documents:

• Primary Source Documents - Decolonization in Asia (Tufts University library resources)
• History: Southeast Asia - Primary Sources (Berkeley.edu)
• National Library: Vietnam
• CIA: The Vietnam Collection (CIA.gov)
• Southeast Asian Collections of Images and Text (wisc.edu)
• Indochina Primary Source Documents (U.S. National Library of Congress)
• Exiting Indochina: U.S. Leadership of the Cambodia Settlement & Normalization of Relations with Vietnam  (PDF Book)
• The Road to War: France and Vietnam, 1944-1947 (PDF Book)
• Interviewing President Ho Chi Minh (Video archive but you can record the interview as transcript text)

Exit Ticket:

1. Give feedback to each group member on the relevancy of their selected primary source document is to their specific topic.  Does this document look like something that will generate a depth of questioning and investigation into this topic for your group's independence movement?
2. Does the citation include original publication information?
3. Again, be sure every primary source group members are using  are different! No one in the group should be using the same image or text!

HW: Complete Evaluation of your Primary Source Document (OPVL)

Complete the OPVL table for your primary source. It is important that you consider its origins (original publication date and purpose/author's intent).

• Sample OPVL evaluations in WH

Based on this DBQ task of helping other students investigate and understand this topic as it relates to the country's independence (or ending of foreign oppression), what are the values and limitations of using this primary source document for guided inquiry/questioning?

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