Nationalist Revolutions

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Nationalist Revolutions

• India and Southeast Asia

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Find India
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India

• India
• India often called the jewel in the crown
• Indian nationalist movement begins
• What is the goal?
• Congress Party (Hindu Indian National Congress
• Muslim League

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Nationalist activity grows

• Indian troops enlist in British Army
• 1919 Rowlatt Acts
• Amritsar Massacre
• 10000 Hindus and Muslims protest Rowlatt Acts
• British troops fire on protestors
• British had banned public meetings
• Massacre sparks nationalism
  across nation- Indians demand what????

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Massacre at Amritsar
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Gandhi
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Gandhi (October 2, 1869- January 30, 1948)

• Gandhi born under British rule of India
• India often called the jewel in the crown
• Gandhi devoted to civil disobedience through
  nonviolence
• Satyagraha
• Ahimsa

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Indian Actions British Response
Amritsar Protests British troops fire on an unarmed crowd
Boycotts Sale of British products drop
Salt March Police officers club demonstrators
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Independence!

• India is granted limited self rule in 1935
• Finally gains complete independence in 1947
• India will be partitioned into different
  countries

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Muslims Vs. Hindus

• Hindus and Muslims, who once fought for
  independence, now fight one another
• India today

MUMBAI
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Other Countries Gain Independence

• Turkey
• Mustafa Kemal (aka Ataturk)
• Sweeping reforms
• Separated religion from law, abolished religious
  courts, women gain suffrage and the right to hold
  public office, industrialized Turkey
• Iran
• Formerly known as Persia
• New leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, sets out to
  modernize his country
• Saudi Arabia
• Hold to strict Islamic law
• Efforts to modernize limited by religion