1. Decolonization of Malaya
Malayan Union
Federation of Malaya
Emergency
Gradual Preparation for Independence

2. Malayan Union Blue = Unfederated Malay States
Red = Straits Settlements
Yellow = Federated Malay States

3. The British government wanted to centralize power
Citizenship = 8 out of 10 years. Prepare Malaya for independence

4. Remove political powers of Sultans

5. British Governor who ruled with Executive and Legislative Council

6. Rise of Nationalism Dato Onn Binn Jaafar, District Officer
41 different Malay organizations – UMNO
March 1946

7. Hartals, boycotts, strikes

8. British fear of radical Malay groups and Indonesian Revolution (1945 – 1947)
Sukarno-Hatta declare Indonesian Independence
17 August 1945
Surabaya (Nov ’45)
Pemuda
General Malleby
Kesatuan Melayu Muda – Ibrahim Yaacob

9. British compromise with UMNO and Sultans

10. II. Federation of Malaya
State Legislative Concil
Sultan powers
15/20 years - citizenship

11. III. Emergency
MPAJA and the Ex-Comrades Association

12. Mao Tse Tung and communist China

13. Trade Unions and Chinese Schools

14. Min Yuen – Chinese village squatters

15. Lai Teck as Double Agent

16. Guerilla War
3 Europeans murdered in Sungei Siput
Emergency

18. Political Strategy – Elections
Murder of Henry Gurney, High Commissioner in 1950