March 9/10: Independence Movements

Helpful Links for Today's Class:

• Pick Your Top 3 Choices for Independence Movements (Google Survey)
• Group DBQ Packet Template - you will use this to develop your group’s DBQ (each member of the group copy/pastes their completed documents, citations, and questions to this document) -- this document will eventually be published and used by other students to study this country’s fight for independence.
• DBQ Exemplar: Myanmar Decolonization Conflict
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• Individual DBQ Document (this has been dropped into your WH Google Drive Folder)

HW: Do Background Research on Topic; Write 1-paragraph summary

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As you communicate with your group members, decide on who is going to focus on which topic (see task instructions within the group document). There are 6 possible topics to choose from for each independence movement. Every group member must have a different topic as this will correlate with the brief summary you will write and the primary source you will try to find next class block.

You can communicate through your Group DBQ Packet Document.

You will begin taking notes in the INDIVIDUAL SUMMATIVE DQQ document that has already been dropped into your WH Google Drive folder.  Your homework is to start taking notes on your topic (this is why your group will need to decide who has what topic first).  Try to write a 1-paragraph summary of what you discover about your topic. This paragraph will later be copy/pasted into the group document.

​Next class, your group will work on turning this into a cohesive background essay for the DBQ packet.

Helpful Resources (depending on assigned independence movement:

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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