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Mohandas K. Ghandi was Born
The future leader of a civil disobedience act in India was given life. -
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Civil Disobedience: the Life of Ghandi
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Ghandi Goes to England
Went to Enlgand to study law. Then after becoming educated in law he returned to India and tried to set up his own law practice. He eventually joined an Indian Law Firm in South Africa. -
Ghandi's work in South Africa
For 20 years Ghandi faught laws that discriminated against Indians in South Africa. This is were he adopted the practice of non-violence resistance. His name for this resistance was "soul force". -
Ghandi's Back in India
GHandi returned to India and goined the congress party. -
Armitsar Massacre
379 Indians were brutally murdered and more than 1,100 were wounded in India by the British Army. -
Salt March
Ghandi and 78 followers set out for a 240 mile march to the sea. This was their attempt to end the British salt monopoly. -
End of Salt March
Ghandi stood in the surf and picke dup lumps of salt. Shortly after he was arrested and thrown in jail. -
British Embarrassment
All around the world newspapers thundered against Britian. They told stories of the police brutally clubing innocant marchers. -
Separate Muslim State
Muslim League gained an able leader named Muhhammad Ali Jinnah. He proposed a seperate state for Muslims called Pakistan "land of ritually pure". -
WW II Begins
Britian outraged India by postponing any actions of independence, and bringing India to war without consent. Many Indians began to not cooperate. -
WW II Ends
The war ended. Independence could no longer be denied. -
After WW II
A new tragedy unfolds as Hindu-Musliums reage in violence in the subcontinent. -
Two States
British drew up borders to form Hindu India and Muslium Pakistan. Pakistan was made up of two seperate areas with large Muslium population. -
Tragedy Unfolds
Fair borders became "unpossible". India began to outbreak in violence. Millions of musliums died. -
The death of Ghandi :(
Ghandi was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist. India outbroke in devistation.
