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George Valentia, Calcutta (1809)
Wanted to get rid of half-caste kids in India in order to keep societies separated. Significance-shows informal colonization. Did not want to get completely involved but wanted influence in the economy.
Testimony for the Factory Act (1833)
Showed the negative effects of working in factories and specifically what it did to children. Significance-lead to the creation of labor laws.
Temple Wage (1877)
Famine in India. British government did not want to get involved so it would not lose profit so they would give out wages in food but not enough was given out. Significance-shows that colonization did not always help colonies. In this case, Britain ended up hurting the colony.
Cecil Rhodes, Confession of Faith (1877)
Justifies colonialization, says Britain must take over colonies because they are the strongest nation in the world. Significance-Shows why Britain was colonizing many places and is example of White Man's Burden.
Edmund D. Morel, The Black Man's Burden (1920)
Africa never fully recovered because Europe exploited it for its natural resources and didn't allow Africa to build its own economy. Significance-Shows the negative effects of colonialism and leads to more human rights.
Jomo Kenyatta, selection from Facing Mount Kenya, (1937)
Talks about his own community and how Europeans took their land. Significance-Africans should be able to choose which European ideas they wanted to follow and that Europeans were not superior to Africans.
Honda Toshiaki, A Secret Plan of Government (1798)
Advocated for expansion (islands) in order to compete with other large nations. Significance-Did not have an effect at first, but later gained popularity. First thought that Japan should expand and colonize.
Yamagata Aritomo, The Coming Race War (1914-15)
Japan must build an oriental race in order to protect themselves and compete with the west. Significance-led to an increase in Japanese influence in China. Led to expansion into Manchuria.
British Army's Form A. 2042 (1914-1918)
Letter sent by soldiers to families. Said everything was ok but had secret messages telling how it really was. Significance-WWI was supposed to be a simple,quick war but was much more terrible than what was thought. Beginning of Crisis of Modernity.
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est (1918)
Poem about trench warfare. Significance-showed the brutality and advancements in technology of WWI.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)
Germans needed more living space because they were superior race. Significance-Beginning of the ideas that brought about Holocaust and WWII.
Hanna Lévy-Hass, Diary of Bergen-Belsen (1944-45)
Concentration camp memoirs. Significance-showed the brutality of Germans in the concentration camps.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, Second Letter to Lord Irwin (1930)
Gandhi asked for the tax on salt to be stopped or he would do another march. Significance-Shows Gandhi's non violent resistance (satyagraha) movement and a side of the partition of India.
George F. Kennan, The Long Telegram (1946)
Containing Communism. The US needs to tell people about it and fight against it. Significance-Shows the big foreign policy for the Cold War and how the US should go about implementing this policy and containing communism.
Isabel and David Crook, Chinese Revolution (1940s)
When communist revolution happens in China, poor people become new middle class and everyone is happy. Significance-Shows the upside to communism and how it was spreading to new nations.
Juan and Eva Perón, The Peróns Justify Their Regime (1944-1951)
Wanted to nationalize and reform how Argentina made products and get new rights for workers. Eva Peron believed women should be at home. Significance-Showed communist ideals spreading and the potential positive effects it could have.