BEFORE YOU WATCH: Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant - Crash Course World History #40

Before you watch

While you watch

1. How did World War II affect the colonial empires?
2. Why was there tension within India’s independence movement? What was the source of the disagreement?
3. In what way was the Indian independence movement very different from the partition of India that followed? What do you think was the cause of this difference?
4. What are cash crops? How were Indonesian farmers exploited in order to enrich the Netherlands?
5. What kinds of challenges did African nations face after independence? How had imperialism contributed to those challenges?

After you watch

1. Use evidence from this video to compare the processes by which various peoples pursued independence after 1900.
2. What factors made it possible for anti-colonial movements around the world to achieve independence during this period? John Green touches upon many of those factors in this video. How did some factors have more influence on certain former colonies and less on others?
3. Was violence necessary to achieve independence? Examine the role that violence played in the various parts of the world that John Green covers. Based on the information you have so far, do you think independence could have been achieved solely through nonviolent resistance?