Unit 20: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Asia & Oceania
Topic 20.13: Impact of the Second World War on South-East Asia Questions
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Which two resources, above all, drove Japan's decision to invade the Dutch East Indies and Malaya in 1941?
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Analyse the reasons why local populations in South-East Asia responded to Japanese occupation with both collaboration and resistance.
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Analyse the reasons why Britain, France and the Netherlands were unable to defend their South-East Asian colonies effectively against Japan in 1941 and 1942.
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To what extent was the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere merely propaganda rather than a genuine policy of Asian liberation?
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Approximately how many Allied troops surrendered at the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942?
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On what date did Japan launch coordinated attacks on Pearl Harbor, Malaya and the Philippines?
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Choose the year Malaya finally achieved independence under Tunku Abdul Rahman.
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Evaluate the extent to which the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 can be seen as the decisive turning point in the collapse of Western power in South-East Asia.
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Choose the name of the locally trained Indonesian defence force Japan sponsored during the occupation.
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Choose the correct date on which Sukarno declared Indonesian independence.
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Discuss the view that Japanese occupation, rather than directly causing independence, primarily discredited colonial rule and equipped nationalist movements for the struggles that followed.
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Which resistance organisation was formed in 1941 and fought against both the French and the Japanese in Indochina?
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Examine the reasons for Japan's rapid conquest of South-East Asia between 1940 and 1942.
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Compare and contrast the nature of resistance to occupying powers in Malaya and Vietnam (Indochina) between 1941 and 1945.
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Discuss the impact of Japanese occupation on the civilian populations of South-East Asia between 1942 and 1945.
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Compare and contrast the nature of Japanese occupation in the Dutch East Indies and Indochina between 1942 and 1945.
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To what extent did the experience of Japanese occupation differ between Malaya and the Dutch East Indies?
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What were the romusha?
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Choose the event that caused well over 100,000 civilian deaths in the Philippines in 1945.
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To what extent did wartime collaboration with Japan help rather than harm nationalist movements in South-East Asia?
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