History of the Modern World, 10th Edition (Palmer)

Chapter 23: Postcolonial Nations in Asia and Latin America

Primary Sources, Maps and Images

CXV.End of the European Empires in Asia

1. End of the British Empire in Asia
• [Image Gandhi]
• [Primary Source Pakistan Resolution of Muslim League, 1940]
• [Image Muhammad Ali Jinnah]
• [Primary Source Ganhdi, Quit India campaign, 1942]
• [Primary Source Jawaharlal Nehru, Speech on the Granting of Indian Independence, 1947]
• [Primary Source British Government Policy Statement on Burma, 1945]
• [Image Gandhi assassinated in 1948]
• [Primary Source Ghandi's assassin]
• [Primary Source Kashmir Crisis, 1947]
• [Image Indian army in Kashmir, 1948]
• [Primary Source Declaration of Pakistan and India on Jammu and Kashmir, 1966]
• [Image 1971 India-Pakistan war in East Pakistan]
• [Primary Source Nehru, Speech to Bandung Conference, 1955]
• [Primary Source Sino-Indian War, 1962]

2. Nehru's Successors
• [Image Indira Gandhi]
• [Image Massacre at Golden Temple at Amritsar]
• [Image Rajiv Gandhi]
• [Image 1992 Hindu extremists destroy Muslim mosque]
• [Image Communal Riots of 1992]
• [Image Indian Schoolchildren Learning Computing Skills]
• [Map Tsunami’s Impact on India]

3. Fifty Years of Independence
• [Image Health worker visiting Calcutta slum]

4. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan
• [Image Poster from Bangladesh war of independence, 1971]
• [Image East Pakistan proclaimed independence as Bangladesh, 1971]
• [Image Fish Market, Dhaka, Bangladesh]
• [Image Islamic Madrassah in Karachi, Pakistan]

5. The Union of Burma (Myanmar)
• [Primary Source U Nu, Burma Looks Ahead, 1951]
• [Image Aung San]
• [Image Aung San Suu Kyi]

6. Malaysia
• [Image Hydroelectric Dam Project, Malaysia]

7. End of the Dutch Empire: Indonesia
• [Image Sukarno]
• [Image General Suharto]
• [Image Arrest of a Communist]
• [Image Rebels in Aceh]

8. End of the French Colonial Empire: Indochina
• [Image French return to Indochina, 1945]
• [Primary Source Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam, 1945]
• [Image Warfare in 1946 in Indochina]
• [Image Ho Chi Minh]
• [Image Viet Minh]
• [Primary Source Declaration of the Geneva Conference on Restoring Peace in Indochina, 1954]
• [Image Dien Bien Phu, 1954]

9. The Americans and the Philippines
• [Image Emilio Aguinaldo]
• [Primary Source Declaration of Philippine Independence, 1898]
• [Image Ferdinand E. Marcos]
• [Image Corazon Aquino]

CXVII.Changing Latin America

1. The Colonial Experience and the Wars for Independence

2. The Colossus to the North
• [Primary Source Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine ]
• [Primary Source Calvin Coolidge, Intervention in Nicaragua]
• [Image Poverty in Latin America]

3. Economic Growth and Its Problems
• [Primary Source Inter-American Committee, Problems of Latin American Economies, 1965]
• [Image Getulio Vargas]
• [Primary Source President John Kennedy, On the Alliance for Progress, 1961]
• [Image Poverty in Guatemala]

4. End of Yankee Imperialism?
• [Primary Source Senator William Fulbright, Appraisal of US Policy in the Dominican Crisis, 1965]
• [Primary Source Charter, Organization of American States]

5. The Political Record
• [Primary Source Juan Peron, Justicialism, 1948]
• [Primary Source The Dirty War in Argentina]
• [Image Salvador Allende]
• [Image General Augusto Pinochet]
• [Image Fidel Castro]
• [Image Cuban revolution]
• [Image Vincente Fox]
• [Primary Source North American Free Trade Agreement, 1994]
• [Image Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ]
• The Advance of Latin American Democracy
• [Image Hugo Chavez]