A History of the Modern World, 9/e

R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Empires into Nations: The Developing World

Internet Exercises

End of British India: The British perspective Use the documents to explain why, during the years 1942-47, the British decided to leave India.
Link 1 (http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420311a.html)



Link 2 (http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420330a.html)



Link 3 (http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420726a.html)



Link 4 (http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420805b.html)



Link 5 (http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420809a.html)



Link 6 (http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420910a.html)



Link 7 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946-india-ukpolicy.html)

End of British India: The Indian perspective Use the documents to explain why, from an Indian perspective, the British decided to leave India.
Link 1 (http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420427a.html)



Link 2 (http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420807a.html)



Link 3 (http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/421031a.html)



Link 4 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947nehru1.html)

North Vietnam declares independence, 1945

Analyze the allusions in and argument of the North Vietnamese declaration of independence.

Link 1
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietdec.htm)

Apartheid Characterize the arguments for and against apartheid.
Link 1 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1948apartheid1.html)



Link 2 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1953geyer.html)



Link 3 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961-un-southafrica1.html)

The Founding of Israel Discuss the Israeli understanding of their foundation as a Jewish nation in the Middle East.
Link 1 (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00hb0)



Link 2 (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00hk0)

Gulf War: Iraqi and Israeli Perspectives Read and compare these perspectives on the Gulf War, and then write a history of the war from a non-American perspective.
Link 1 (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6506/diary.html)



Link 2 (http://historicaltextarchive.com/gulfwar/koren.html)

NAFTA and its critics Browse the North American Free Trade Agreement of 1994 and then read the Temuco-Wallmapuche Declaration. What is the basis of the opposition to NAFTA from some indigenous peoples?
Link 1 (http://www-tech.mit.edu/Bulletins/nafta.html)



Link 2 (http://abyayala.nativeweb.org/chile/nafta.html)

A Little Tiger

Use the GDP statistics for 1960-2000 to discuss Singapore as one of the Asian "Little Tigers."

Link 1
(http://www.singstat.gov.sg/FACT/HIST/gdp1.html)

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