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Chapter 7 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - increasingly overcrowded coz increased population
      - Singapore experienced post-war baby boom which led to increase in population 1940s and 1950s
      - much housing destroyed or became run-down during wartime
    - - built an average of 1742 units per year
        
        not enough
        
        needed 10,000 units per year to meet needs of growing population
  - - - growing population meant more demand for food
      - war had disrupted shipping, affecting the flow of food supplies into Singapore
      - wartime food rationing continued
      - neighbouring rice-producing countries did not have enough rice to export to Singapore
      - malnutrition was widespread
  - - - From 1947, all trade unions had to register with the government so that the government can monitor their membership.
      - Stopped unions from using their funds to organise strikes and protests against the government
      - (suspected that communists are working within the trade unions stirring up anti-colonial feelings and instigating the strikes.)
  - - - people in Singapore now had a say in who would represent them in the Legislative Council
      - 14,000 voters turned up
        
        participation was very low
        
        many recent immigrants were not allowed to vote as they were not born in Britain or in the British colonies
      - only one local party contested the elections: Singapore Progressive Party
- - - - Rendel Commision
        
        Anti-National Service Riots
        
        Labour Front wins the 1955 election
        
        Hock Lee Bus Riot
        
        First Merdeka Talk
        
        Chinese Middle School Students Riots
        
        2 more items...
        
        1956
        
        1955
    - - rejected appeal
        
        supporters reacted angrily-overturned cars,put fire,attack Europeans