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        • Paper 1
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          • The Cold War Home
        • Paper 3
      • History IA
      • Paper 1 >
        • 1. Rwanda Causes
        • 2. Rwanda Course
        • 3. Rwanda Impact
        • 1.1. Causes of Kosovo Conflict
        • 2.2. Course of Kosovo Conflict
        • 3.3 Consequences of the Kosovo Conflict
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          • 1. Rivalry, Mistrust Accord >
            • Korea
            • The Thaw
            • End of the Cold War
          • 2. Cold War Leaders and Nations
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      • Paper 3 >
        • 9. East Asia 1860 - 1912 >
          • 1. Tongzhi restoration
          • 2. Self Strengthening movement
          • 3. Sino Japanese war
          • 4. Boxer rebellion
        • S.E Asia Colonialism HL >
          • HL Unit 5: Philippines
          • HL Unit 5: INDO-CHINA
          • Nationalism
          • HL Siam
        • China 1949 - 2005 >
          • Consolidation of the Communist State
          • Transition to socialism
          • Social Devleopments
          • Cultural Revolution
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          • Post Mao
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        • Afghanistan
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      • The First World War >
        • World War One in film and documentaries
        • World War One books and additional reading
        • 1. Causes: The Alliance system
        • 2. Growth Tension, IGCSE
        • 3. Struggle Balkans, IGCSE
        • 4. Schlieffen Plan and Deadlock
        • 5. The War at Sea and Gallipoli
        • 6. The Defeat of Germany
      • Stalin's Russia >
        • Stalin at the library
        • Stalin at the movies
        • Background to Stalin
        • Leadership struggle
        • Collectivisation and 5YP
        • Purges
        • Life in the SU
        • Second World War and after
      • China IGCSE unit >
        • China Videos
        • China in Literature section
        • 1. China 1900 - 34
        • 2. China 1934 - 49
        • 3. China Under Mao 1949 - 63
        • 4. China 1965 - 76 Cultural Revolution
        • 5. China, 1976 - 89
      • USA: Divided Union 1945-74 >
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        • Protest Movements
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      • Year 7 - Native Americans >
        • 1. Introduction to discoveries
        • 2. Who were the first Americans?
        • 3. Discovery and wonder
        • 4. Sioux investigation
        • 5. Sources and assessment
        • 6. The loss of Native American land
        • 7. Why go west?
        • 8. The Oregon Trail simulation
        • 9. Encounters
        • 10. Assessment 2 - Board game
      • Year 8 Systems of government Inquiry >
        • Unpacking the statement
        • Introduction to China
        • The research phase
        • PEAL
        • How do systems compare
        • Assessment
        • Reflection
      • Year 9 MYP History >
        • Vietnam homepage >
          • 1. Vietnam immersion
          • 2. Vietnam 1945 - 54
          • 3. The US invasion of Vietnam
          • 4. What was fighting like in Vietnam?
          • 5. The US soldier's experience
          • 6. Protests and legacy
          • Assessment
        • Year 9 Genocide and dehumanisation >
          • 1. History Heroes
          • 2. The Modest Hero
          • 3. Genocide overview
          • 4. Causes of the Holocaust
          • 5. How could this happen? >
            • Assessment mini essay
          • 6. What happened at Auschwitz?
          • 7. Assessment
          • 8. Genocide in History
  • IB Global Politics
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    • Introduction to Global Politics
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    • Unit 1: Power, Sovereignty & IR >
      • POWER REVISION SECTION
      • 1.1 Defining Power
      • 1.2 Theories of Power
      • 1.3 Types of Power
      • 1.4 Defining legitimacy
      • 2.1 Emergence of Nation States
      • 2.2 Applying Sovereignty
      • 2.3 Social Contract
      • 2.4 Nation States and Political Systems
      • 2.4b Political Systems and states
      • 3.1 Inter-governmental Organisations
      • 3.2 Role and Existence of NGOs
      • 3.3 Violent Protest Movements
      • 3.4 Social Movements
      • 3.5 Political Parties
      • 3.6 Informal Forums
      • 4.1 Global Governance
      • 4.2 Treaties and Collective Security
      • 4.3 Economic Cooperation
      • 4.5 Interstate and Intrastate War
      • 4.6 Terrorism
      • Theory reading
    • Unit 2: Human Rights >
      • Human Rights websites
      • 1. Defining Human Rights
      • 2. UN Declaration on Human Rights >
        • Developments in Human Rights
      • 3. Human Rights as a Western Construction
      • 4. Multi-lateralism and bi-lateralism
      • 5. Non-governmental
      • 5a Other Rights Conventions
      • 6a) Codification of HR Law
      • 6. The ICC >
        • ICC Sudan Genocide case
      • 7. Claims on Human Rights
      • 8. Violations of Human Rights
      • 9. Violations of Human Rights
      • 9a) Write for Rights
      • 10. Cultural Relativism
      • 11. Politicisation of Human Rights
    • Unit 3: Development >
      • 1.1 Defining Development
      • 1.2 Measuring Development
      • 2. Factors Affecting Development
      • Political Factors Affecting Development
      • 3.1 Models of development
      • 3.2 The Capability approach
      • 3.3 Approaches for Developing Economy
      • 3.4 Approaches for Developing Society
      • 4.1 Globalisation and development
      • 4.2 Sustainable Development
      • Interesting video resources
    • Unit 4: Peace & Conflict >
      • 1. Contested meanings conflict >
        • Defining Peace
        • Conflict and Violence
        • Types of conflict
        • Balance of Power Theory
        • Justifications of violence
      • 2. Causes / Parties to conflict >
        • Causes of conflict
        • 2. Greed and grievance
        • 3. Parties to conflict
      • 3. Evolution of conflict >
        • Conflict dynamics and manifestations
        • Third party intervention
      • 4. Conflict resolution >
        • Peacekeeping and peacebuilding
      • Territorial Disputes
    • IA: Engagement Activity
    • HL: Case Study Presentations >
      • GloPol HL Research
      • HL Writing Presentation
      • HL Presenting
    • Global Politics Revision
    • External Assessment >
      • Essay Planning and Writing GP
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HL Unit 5: Indo-China

Inquiry: What were the causes, nature and effect of French Imperialism in French Indo-China?

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ATL Focus: Researching in a traditional academic setting. Locating and selecting information from books and using MLA 8 citations. Categorising research according to focus areas.
Applications: History IA, research papers such as Extended Essays/IAs in other subjects, university assignments, safeguarding against plagiarism
This unit is organised around a guided inquiry over four lessons and home work. You will need to stay organised, consciously think about every aspect of the process and reflect on the skills used as well as the history learned. Your inquiry will follow these steps:
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1. Get an overview
​2. Locating and selecting information.
3. Prioritising and evaluating ideas and arguments with your peers.
4. Evaluating historical significance and drawing conclusions.

1. Getting an Overview of Indo-China to 1914
ATL: Audio Visual Research using Cornell
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Note taking focus is: How did the French change the lives of people living in 'Indo-China'?
Watch the sections of this video highlighted below, fill in the worksheet and read the extract about opium to gain an idea of the issues facing Indochina in the 18th century. You will also read sections of your text to add to your understanding.
Overview (0.00 to 9.13 minutes) and then China in Vietnam (9.13 to 11.15) French in Vietnam (11.15 to 16.11)
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​Read the extract about opium in Vietnam. From this reading, what factors, with regards to imperialism, do you think might have affected Vietnam’s history and progress?
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Read Church section on Vietnam up to the colonial period. Create a diagram for "Pre-colonial Vietnamese History". Make it look something like the guide below and use the same prompts. Then flesh out each point and answer the question: What effect do all these factors have on the national psyche of the Vietnamese?

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To better understand the relative locations of colonies, colour in the French colonies on the map below (print a copy). This map will come in useful for adding other colonies as our studies progress. 
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Now, using the Church text, construct a timeline of colonial activity in Vietnam from 1789 and finish about 1914. Do remember that this timeline could extend to the end of the Vietnam War to include content for the unit "Cold War Conflict in Asia"

Factors leading to colonialism

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Over time, the factors leading to colonialism changed. There were stages of imperialism and it is "New Imperialism" which was the phase which propelled France into Indochina. To understand these stages better, complete the worksheet, using the Cowie reading and the information on the worksheet.

2. What do historians identify as the key political, economic, social and cultural motivations / impacts of French actions in Indochina?

ATL: Locating and selecting information using books
You will take one of the following themes: political, social, cultural and economic factors.
  • Using the variety of textbooks, including your own, practise researching effectively, using contents pages and indexes, to find information for each box (use the google doc below to create a template with headings but no content).  For this exercise, do not go to other sources outside of the provided texts. 
  • Each piece of information needs to be referenced according to MLA 8, as in text citations and in a shared Works Cited List.
  • Each student needs to look at a minimum of 4 textbooks.
  • Group members must confer to agree on which points to include on the table. Look for consensus among historians. Add alternate perspectives. Aim to have about 5 salient points in each box. No more.
  • Each group finds their information adds it to the class google doc of this table.
  • Each student saves their own copy in their own notes at the end.

ALTERNATIVELY:
Use the Google Doc below which has been filled out (often incorrectly!) for you. In pairs/groups. Make a copy for your class to work on. Take a section and reallocate the information to the correct sections. Then turn all points into bullet points. Then go to the blue box of textbooks and fact check the information, adding, changing or deleting information from the original doc.
Resources:
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Once you have finished, complete the following cloze exercise to check your understanding. Add new information from the cloze exercise to the causes, nature and effect google doc which you just made.

Here are some other sources to use: 
https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/europeans-in-vietnam/
https://alphahistory.com/vietnamwar/french-colonialism-in-vietnam/

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3. Was there any effective nationalist resistence to the French in Indo - China?

This lesson explores the extent to which there was consistent resistence to the French in Indo-China - how far had nationalism devleoped by 1914?
1. Open the note frame below and review the table.
2. Read at least two of the readings below. Complete the table using the readings. You are aiming for around 5-6 bullet points in each column.
​3. Answer the final question
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Readings:
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