SEAB GCE O-Level History

What is inside (65 subdecks)

• Paper 1 Extension of European control in Southeast Asia and challenges to European dominance, 1870s–1942604 cards

  • 1. British Malaya, 1870s–1920s (compulsory)120 cards

    • British presence in Malaya before 187019 cards
    • Economic change: tin, rubber and an export economy20 cards
    • Local responses to British rule8 cards
    • Political change: the Residential System and the Malay states23 cards
    • Social change: a plural society and new elites17 cards
    • The shift in British policy in the 1870s and Perak33 cards
  • 2. Dutch Indonesia, 1870s–1920s (option)65 cards

    • Dutch presence before 187016 cards
    • Extension of Dutch control to the Outer Islands20 cards
    • Local responses to Dutch rule14 cards
    • Transformation of Indonesia15 cards
  • 3. French Vietnam, 1870s–1920s (option)70 cards

    • Extension of French control to Annam and Tonkin20 cards
    • French presence before 187020 cards
    • Local responses to French rule14 cards
    • Transformation of Vietnam under the French16 cards
  • 4. After World War I103 cards

    • New nation-states and the end of empires18 cards
    • The First World War18 cards
    • The League of Nations and collective security in the 1920s29 cards
    • The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles38 cards
  • 5. The rise of authoritarian regimes143 cards

    • Militarist Japan: government control14 cards
    • Militarist Japan: the rise of the military in the 1920s and 1930s30 cards
    • Nazi Germany: consolidating power26 cards
    • Nazi Germany: economic and social policies37 cards
    • Nazi Germany: the rise of Hitler36 cards
  • 6. War in Europe and the Asia-Pacific: the outbreak of the Second World War103 cards

    • Germany's aggressive foreign policy39 cards
    • Outbreak of the war in the Asia-Pacific28 cards
    • The Abyssinian Crisis, 193514 cards
    • The League of Nations in the 1930s6 cards
    • The policy of appeasement16 cards
• Paper 2 Developments in the post-World War II world: the Cold War and decolonisation in Southeast Asia, 1940s–1991458 cards

  • 1. War in Europe and the Asia-Pacific: the end of the Second World War51 cards

    • Why Germany was defeated26 cards
    • Why Japan was defeated25 cards
  • 2. The Cold War in Europe101 cards

    • Containment: American actions23 cards
    • Post-war Europe and the superpowers18 cards
    • Soviet responses29 cards
    • The breakdown of the wartime alliance21 cards
    • The Communist takeover in China10 cards
  • 3. Extension of the Cold War outside Europe58 cards

    • The Korean War, 1950–195327 cards
    • The Vietnam War, 1954–197531 cards
  • 4. Decolonisation and newly independent nations in Southeast Asia77 cards

    • British efforts to grant self-government and local responses25 cards
    • British Malaya, 1945–1957 (compulsory): the impact of the war18 cards
    • The attainment of independence in 19578 cards
    • The Cold War and decolonisation in Malaya26 cards
  • 5. Dutch Indonesia, 1945–1949 (option)50 cards

    • Developments leading to decolonisation15 cards
    • Dutch attempts to restore rule and Indonesian responses21 cards
    • The Communist revolt and independence14 cards
  • 6. French Vietnam, 1945–1954 (option)46 cards

    • Developments leading to decolonisation9 cards
    • Independence declared and France returns27 cards
    • Independence in 195410 cards
  • 7. The end of the Cold War75 cards

    • Thawing and rising tensions in the 1960s and 1970s25 cards
    • The 1980s and the reforms of Gorbachev36 cards
    • The Soviet Union's economic weaknesses14 cards