Need help with modern history question | Indochina | 3 days left

[hunterjjs]

So I have a modern history seen essay coming up in 4 days. And one of the questions is

"assess the impact of communism"

I am studying Indochina right now and have no idea what to talk to about as in like, what my paragraphs should be about.

Please help me out

[Mada438]

So I have a modern history seen essay coming up in 4 days. And one of the questions is

"assess the impact of communism"

I am studying Indochina right now and have no idea what to talk to about as in like, what my paragraphs should be about.

Please help me out

Surely there's more to the question than that!!
That sounds way too vague, even by NESA's standards!

Is there anything more to it?

[sudodds]

So I have a modern history seen essay coming up in 4 days. And one of the questions is

"assess the impact of communism"

I am studying Indochina right now and have no idea what to talk to about as in like, what my paragraphs should be about.

Please help me out

Hi Hunter!

I agree with Mada, that question does appear quite vague - was there any suggestion as to what aspect of the syllabus it was referring too? Normally Modern essays will focus on one section of the syllabus (so for e.g. this question may only be focusing on Indochina after the French, the first section of the Indochina syllabus). Very rarely, if ever, does a question relate to the entire study.

Either way though, with a question like this, I would normally suggest a thematic response, given that you are assessing the impact of an ideology (i.e. a worldview that affects all aspects of life). So look at how communism affected;

1. Politics
2. Economics
3. Society and Culture

Alternatively, if you know which section you should be looking at, you could write a factors essay, focusing on key events - as long as they relate to the question, and demonstrate the impact of communism.

Make sure that whatever structure you have, you have a judgement - an opinion. Don't just describe the impact of communism, assess it. Was it a highly significant impact? Or was it only limited? Was the impact of communism contingent on other factors?

Hope this helps.

[hunterjjs]

Hi Hunter!

I agree with Mada, that question does appear quite vague - was there any suggestion as to what aspect of the syllabus it was referring too? Normally Modern essays will focus on one section of the syllabus (so for e.g. this question may only be focusing on Indochina after the French, the first section of the Indochina syllabus). Very rarely, if ever, does a question relate to the entire study.

Either way though, with a question like this, I would normally suggest a thematic response, given that you are assessing the impact of an ideology (i.e. a worldview that affects all aspects of life). So look at how communism affected;

1. Politics
2. Economics
3. Society and Culture

Alternatively, if you know which section you should be looking at, you could write a factors essay, focusing on key events - as long as they relate to the question, and demonstrate the impact of communism.

Make sure that whatever structure you have, you have a judgement - an opinion. Don't just describe the impact of communism, assess it. Was it a highly significant impact? Or was it only limited? Was the impact of communism contingent on other factors?

Hope this helps.

We have a assessment before trails and its two seen questions. One is:

"account for the nature of the political, social, economic and military developments within North and South Vietnam to 1964"

and

"Assess the impact of communism on Vietnam to 1964"

[sudodds]

We have a assessment before trails and its two seen questions. One is:

"account for the nature of the political, social, economic and military developments within North and South Vietnam to 1964"

and

"Assess the impact of communism on Vietnam to 1964"

Yep so this means that for the question on Communism you only need to include up to 1964 (anything beyond that will not be answering the question!). I didn't study indochina, so feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that as it is to 1964, the sections of the syllabus relevant to this question are 'Indochina after the French' and/or 'the USA and Indochina'.

[raylmao]

hello,
communism is vital to the unit because the american's misinterpreted the notion of communism at the Geneva Accords... there was an inextricable link between nationalism and communism that saturated the North Vietnamese consciousness.... Therefore, I would address the nature of US involvement and growing consolidation within the region, and how the North responded to this in order to protect the 'land.'

[fun_jirachi]

We have a assessment before trails and its two seen questions. One is:

"account for the nature of the political, social, economic and military developments within North and South Vietnam to 1964"

and

"Assess the impact of communism on Vietnam to 1964"

Ok so i am doing indochina and those were basically my practice essay questions
tbh my essays i wrote were absolute garbage, because even though my teachers say i have great ideas i can't properly express myself
 
for the first one i did PSEM cos its easy, you literally address the question straight up
paragraph 1 i did Political cos its huge, paragraph 2 i did socioeconomic and paragraph 3 i did military
paragraph 1 is mostly like north south developments, how they evolved separated by the 17th parallel, political ideology and alliances
paragraph 2 is the development of socioeconomic stuff ie.foreign support (china, soviet union, us), as well as stuff like sects such as the suppression of the vietminh in the south, as well as stuff like law 10/59, strategic hamlets and agroville program
paragraph 3 is military buildup prior to war
also chuck in a ton of relevant buzzwords and stats to make yourself sound cool eg. In 1957, US made an assurance to provide Diem’s regime $250 million each year, $170 million of which went to military

for the second one i did this really weird structure where i assessed the impact of communism on the three biggest players: US north and south
i did us first cos its got the juiciest stuff like red scare, mccarthyism, containment theory, domino theory also a ton of those cheeky us president quotes that make you sound smart. communism activates a sort of defense mechanism which 'forces' the us into the war
communism also has a large effect on the north, it becomes the founding basis of northern communism, uniting them all into an army of farmers and guerillas who armed with chinese and soviet weapons crush the us. even though the second half of the sentence isnt relevant, communism is totally crucial to the development of north vietnam as the dominant nation-state, so huge impact for them
for the south, theres not much there. it was my smallest paragraph but i mentioned stuff like policy and paranoia, how they attempted to stagnate the spread of communism with us support and aggressive policy leading to a sorta totalitarian regime
overall just huge impact, communism is great, cold war tensions just make everything 10x worse for everyone than it really is. so even though those guys are on different sides, communism still has a great effect

hope this answers your question