Module 4: The Winds of Change

Independence for India and Pakistan
(Keywords: India, Pakistan, Independence, Jinnah, Gandhi)

The Father of Pakistan: This site is a page from Asia Now magazine. It focuses on the personality differences between Ghandi and Jinnah.
http://www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990823/jinnah.html

Mohammed Ali Jinnah: A clear site, with good illustrations; basically set up to praise Jinnah, so don't expect a balanced account of his career.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3023/50/mozilla/jinnah.html

Mahatma Gandhi: Sites dedicated to the memory of Gandhi, including a biography.
http://www.mahatma.org.in/flash.html
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/gandhi.html
http://www.mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org/
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/gandhi.html

Ghandi’s life and work: The most complete Ghandi site we have found, with links to many other sites.
http://www.mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org/

Revolution in China
Keywords: China, revolution, Koumintang, Amnesty International, human rights)

Koumintang: These sites give a brief history of the political party that ruled China before the Communist Revolution.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CHINAkuomintang.htm
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563041/Kuomintang.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0828370.html

The Chinese Revolution: This site gives an insight on the events from 1949 to 1969 quite clearly: myths and facts of the Communist Revolution
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/1999/09/99/china_50/default.htm

Support Democracy in China Home Page
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sdc/sdchome.html

Human Rights in China (HRIC)
http://iso.hrichina.org/iso/

Amnesty International Home Page
http://www.amnesty.org/

Human Rights Watch Home Page
http://www.hrw.org/

The Middle East
(Keywords: Middle East, Palestine Liberation Organization, Israel)

The Palestinian Liberation Organization: This is the Encyclopedia Britannica’s History of Palestine site. Pay particular attention on the Section on the PLO. It’s one of the few unbiased sites we could find on this topic.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=115036

Information Regarding Israel's Security (IRIS): For a very pro-Israeli view of the PLO, have a look at this site.
http://www.netaxs.com/~iris/plohist.htm

Here’s a pro-PLO site, to balance things.
http://www.cyberus.ca/~baker/pal_plo_1.htm

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States
(Keywords: Civil Rights, United States, Martin Luther King, Black Panthers, Malcolm X)

Brown vs the Board of Education: These sites give the full story of this important chapter in the history of American civil rights, including the complete trial documents.
http://www.nationalcenter.org/brown.html
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nR/travel/civilrights/ka1.htm

Martin Luther King: This is a complete educational site on Martin Luther King, with links to many other sites.
http://martinlutherking.8m.com/

History of the Black Panthers: Learn about the origins and development of the Black Panther Party in America.
http://www.looksmart.com/eus1/eus302562/eus317836/eus317911/eus53828/eus71848/eus285836/eus537024/eus917410/eus286161/r?l&

The Black Panther Party Photo Tour: This site gives a photo-history of the Black Panther Party. A bit short of content, and very biased in favour of the Black Panthers, but visually interesting.
http://www.bobbyseale.com/phototour/index.html

Malcolm X: This "official web site of Malcolm X" includes biographical material
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/malcolm/index.html

Vietnam
(Keywords: Vietnam, war, American, Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnamization)

The CIA Factbook on Vietnam: Basic facts about Vietnam in easy-to-understand form.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/vm.html

Vietnam Interview Room: This site contains material designed to help students who are doing research on the American involvement in Vietnam. The interviews with Americans who took part in the war are especially useful.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/vietnam.htm

Gulf of Tonkin: A critical analysis of the role of the media in the early stages of the Vietnamese War including a very bitter analysis of Johnson’s behaviour at the time of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/940727.html

The Anti-War and New Left Movements: An analysis of the American government’s response to the anti-war movement in the United States.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/vietnam/antiwar.html

Vietnam: A Resource: These are the most complete web sites found on the topic of the Vietnamese War. Use the keywords to search these sites, or just look through the different information that each has to offer.
http://members.aol.com/veterans/warlib6v.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/

Afghanistan
(Keywords: Afghan, news, events)

The Afghan News: This site leads to a number of interesting sites about Afghanistan.
http://www.geocities.com/mstanikzai/news/left5.html

Women and Islam
(Keywords: Women, Islam, educated, burkha)

The Question of Hijab: Suppression or Liberation: A site which argues the case for women being required to wear traditional dress, including covering their heads.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/humanrelations/womeninislam/whatishijab.html

Miserable Life of Educated Women Under Taliban Rule: The same site as above, which articulates some of the concerns women have about the new government in Afghanistan.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/humanrelations/womeninislam/whatishijab.html

RAWA: The website of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, which opposes the government and opposes Islamic fundamentalism.
http://www.rawa.org/

South Africa
(Keywords: South Africa, National Congress, Mandela, Inkatha)

Republic of South Africa: These sites have all sorts of information about South Africa.
http://www.gov.za/
http://www.safrica.info/

The African National Congress: This is the official site of the African National Congress. It is, as you would imagine, totally uncritical.
http://www.anc.org.za/

Inkatha Freedom Party: The official site of the Inkatha Freedom Party presents a somewhat different story, as would be expected.
http://www.ifp.org.za/

Nelson Mandela: This site gives a brief biography of Nelson Mandela
http://www.anc.org.za/people/mandela.html

The Status of Women
(Keywords: Women, de Beauvoir, Greer, Meir, Indira Gandhi, Thatcher, Bhutan)

Simone de Beauvoir, Existentialism and Simone de Beauvoir: These sites give an intellectual biography of Mme Beauvoir.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/beauvoir.htm
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/beauvoir.html

Germaine Greer, Brilliant Careers: This is a quite critical analysis of Germaine Greer’s life and work.
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/06/22/greer/index.html

Brilliant Careers
Search the Brilliant Careers web site for the following:
Golda Meir
Indira Gandhi
Margaret Thatcher
Benazir Bhutan
http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/brilliant_careers/index.html

Rosa Luxemburg
(Keywords: Luxemburg, Liebneckt)

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebneckt: The following are biographical information as well as information on their teachings and beliefs.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/luxembur.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSluxemburg.htm
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/rosa_luxemburg.htm

Transparency International
(Keywords: Transparency International, Canada, corruption)

Transparency International: the global coalition against corruption: Here is the official site of this interesting organization, as well as the Canadian website as well.
http://www.transparency.org/
http://www.transparency.ca/

If for some reason the above links don't work, please use the keywords provided to do your own internet search.