DHS Y3 History 2022_ Vietnam SBQ Holiday practice answer

DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL HUMANITIES & AESTHETICS PROGRAMME YEAR 3 DHP D1 2022 Y3 HOLIDAY PRACTICE: VIETNAM Name: ____________________ ( ) Class: ______ Date:_____________ Section A: Source-Based Case Study . Study the sources carefully, and then answer all the questions. You may use any of the sources to help you answer the questions, in addition to those sources you were told to use. In answering these questions, you should use your knowledge of the topic to interpret and evaluate the sources. 1. (a) Study Source A. What can you infer about the French colonial rule in Vietnam? Explain your answer. [5] (b) Study Sources B and C. How similar are these sources? Explain your answer. [6] (c) Study Source D. How useful is Source D in helping you understand life in Vietnam under the French government? Explain your answer. [7] 1

Was life good under the French colonial rule in Vietnam? BACKGROUND INFORMATION Read this carefully. It may help you to answer some of the questions. Vietnam was part of French Indochina which also included Cambodia and Laos. All the three areas were placed under the control of a Governor-General based in Hanoi. The French tried to strike a balance between changing and keeping the Vietnamese way of life. They transformed Vietnam culturally by imposing the French language and customs and at the same time, also allowed the Vietnamese to maintain their own institutions and customs, if compatible with French interests. How far do you think life was good under the French colonial rule? Study the sources below and answer ALL the questions. Source A: An American cartoonist view of life under the French colonial rule in the 1900. 2

Source B: An extract from a letter by a former mandarin, 1907. The fate of the Vietnamese people today is indeed miserable and insecure, indeed not different from buffaloes and horses. People can tie them up, whip them at will. They have a mouth but dare not speak. They are but to die without a lament. Weighing down on them is the power of the Protectorate government compounded by the cruelty of the Vietnamese mandarinate… A few more years from now villages will be deserted, old and young would have died, if not of hunger, then of imprisonment or exile, if not from drifting long the highways. Source C: An e xtract from an article in a French magazine, 1887. The city of Hanoi is getting more beautiful every day. European construction is gradually replacing grass huts in the main streets. The European quarter now offers a lively atmosphere, especially in