DP History Questionbank

Description

This section relates to the changes produced in South and Southeast Asia by the First and Second World Wars. Both regions were under European rule and were affected by the colonial powers’ involvement. Colonial subjects fought in the wars or were employed as non-combatants. Many thousands witnessed the war in Europe in 1914‑1918, became disillusioned with European civilization and rejected European claims to moral superiority. Many were politicized and some attracted to Communism by the success of the Russian Revolution. President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, particularly the one asserting the right of self-determination, were applied to their own subject status. Some concessions were wrung from the colonial powers in the interwar period. The Second World War impinged directly on the region: the defeat of the colonial powers by Japan lowered their prestige further and provided opportunities for nationalists to assert their claims.

• Government of India Acts 1919 and 1935 and the response of nationalists

• Gandhi, Nehru and Indian nationalism: non-cooperation, civil disobedience and Quit India

• Jinnah: the growth of Muslim separatism

• Factors contributing to independence and partition of the South Asian subcontinent: 1947 Independence Act and its effects in India and Pakistan; Sri Lanka 1948

• Legacy of Japanese occupation in Southeast Asia

• Growth of modern nationalism: Indonesia (Dutch East Indies), Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos (French Indo-China)

• Case study on one country in South or Southeast Asia (other than one already named in this section): political, social and economic effects of the First World War and/or the Second World War

Directly related questions

• 16N.3op3.HL.TZ0.10:

  With reference to two Southeast Asian countries, to what extent did the Japanese occupation lead to the emergence of nationalism?

• 16N.3op3.HL.TZ0.9:

  Examine the ways in which the non-cooperation campaign and the civil disobedience campaign contributed to the movement for Indian Independence.