Transcript Nationalist Revolutions

Nationalist Revolutions
India and Southeast Asia
Find India…
India
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India
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India often called the “jewel in the
crown”
Indian nationalist movement begins
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What is the goal?
Congress Party (Hindu Indian National
Congress
Muslim League
Nationalist activity grows
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Indian troops enlist in British Army
1919 Rowlatt Acts
Amritsar Massacre
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10000 Hindus and Muslims protest Rowlatt
Acts
British troops fire on protestors
British had banned public meetings
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across nation- Indians
demand what????
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Massacre at Amritsar
Gandhi
Gandhi (October 2, 1869- January 30, 1948)
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Gandhi born under British rule of
India
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India often called the “jewel in the
crown”
Gandhi devoted to civil disobedience
through nonviolence
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Satyagraha
Ahimsa
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
Independence!
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India is granted limited self rule in
1935
Finally gains complete
independence in 1947
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India will be partitioned into different
countries
Muslims Vs. Hindus
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Hindus and Muslims, who once
fought for independence, now fight
one another
India today
MUMBAI
Other Countries Gain
Independence
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Turkey
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Mustafa Kemal (aka Ataturk)
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Sweeping reforms:
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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
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Saudi Arabia
Hold to strict Islamic law
 Efforts to modernize limited by religion
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