| S6 4hr History |
Last
update -
01 March 2016 |
Official European
School History S6 Syllabus:
English,
French,
German |
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Compulsory Theme - 7.4C
- Decolonisation and Independence
since 1945 -
syllabus |
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Key Questions and syllabus references. |
Lessons |
Additional materials and external links |
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Key Question - Why was there a process of
decolonisation in Asia and Africa after WWII?
What factors, both internal and
external, encouraged decolonization in Asia and Africa after
1945?
Key words:
Decolonisation,
Independence, Nationalism, Third World, Non-alignment
Possible Reference Points:
Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung (1955)
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People's Century
video
which examines the causes and consequences of
decolonisation. |
Excellent
textual version of the People's
Century episode on Decolonisation.
Worksheet 1
and summary
diagram to be completed
with the help of the presentation below..
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Historian Clive
Ponting's excellent overview of decolonisation -
web version or
download. Historian Eric Hobsbawn's
chapter on decolonisation.
Video on the importance of the Suez Crisis in the history of
decolonisation.
Webpage provides an illustrated history of decolonisation in
the 1950s.
Wikipedia on the importance of the
Bandung Conference. |
What were the different routes
to independence?
What similarities and differences were there in
the experience of independence?Possible Reference Points:
Independence of India (1947)
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India: a case study of negotiated decolonisation.
Worksheet 2.
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BBC
eyewitness: end of British rule in India
Gandhi: hero or villain
video
A short
film to illustrate negotiated decolonisation in Trinidad and
Tobago.
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What were the different routes
to independence?
What similarities and differences were there in
the experience of independence? |
Indo-China: a case study of violent decolonisation.
Worksheet 3.
Additional
sheet that explains why France lost in 1954.
Video on decolonisation movement in French Indo-China.
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Ho Chi Minh: hero or villain?
videos
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What were the different routes
to independence?
What similarities and differences were there in
the experience of independence?Possible Reference Points:
Independence of Belgian Congo (1960)
Also from
Compulsory Theme - 7.4A
- Cold War
What influence did the logic of the Cold War have on regional
conflicts? and Can the UN
resolve international conflicts? |
Congo: a case study of accelerated decolonisation.
Worksheet 4 - The Congo
Part 1 and
Part 2
BBC report on why Lumumba was assassinated.
The Guardian 'the most important assassination of the 20th
century'.
Documentary video -
The
assassination of Lumumba. |
Adam Hochschild on
Lumumba -
extract from King Leopold's Ghost and
short video interview.
BBC -
Who killed Lumumba? Also World Socialist Website
review. Probe -
The Assassination of Lumumba and the Mysterious Death of Dag
Hammarskjold
BBC on the
conspiracy theories behind the death of Dag Hammarskjold
(September 2011)
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Lumumba is a 2000 film directed by Raoul Peck centred
around Patrice Lumumba in the months before and after the
Democratic Republic of the Congo achieved independence from
Belgium in June 1960. |
Video - Film Century - Channel 4 Schools - examines
decolonisation in West Africa and how film represented that at
the time. |
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Key Question - How did former colonies develop after
independence? What
factors promote or limit the political stability and
international independence of former colonies?
Key words:
Decolonisation,
Independence, Nationalism, Third World, Non-alignment,
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Worksheet 5 - The experience of decolonisation in India,
Pakistan and the Congo.
Table to download and complete. Earlier work on
Vietnam to complete the table.
Short documentary
film from the 1980s BBC schools about decolonisation and the
concept of the Third World. |
An extract from a contemporary c1980s American
investigative
documentary into Mobuto's rule.
Video - Congo and Africa's World War: Crash Course World
History 221
Video - BBC historian Dan Snow's recent trip to find the
remains of Mobuto's palace in the jungle. See
complete film.
The Guardian - 'Where Concorde once flew: the story of
President Mobutu's 'African Versailles' |
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Key Question - How did former colonies develop after
independence? What
factors promote or limit the political stability and
international independence of former colonies?
Key words:
Decolonisation,
Independence, Nationalism, Third World, Non-alignment
Possible Reference Points:
Independence of Angola and
Mozambique (1975)
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Worksheet 6 - Middle East and Lusophone Africa:
Post-colonial experiences Short documentary
film from the 1980s BBC schools
Arab-Israeli conflict. |
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Video - Cold War
episode 17
Good Guys, Bad Guys
and accompanying
website. This includes a
transcript of the episode.
The first part deals with the Middle east, the second with Lusophone
Africa. |
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Key Question - How did former colonies develop after
independence? What
factors promoted or limited the economic and social
development of the newly independent countries after
1945?
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Worksheet 7 -
The economic and
social development of the newly independent countries after 1945 |
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