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Nationalism in India and Southwest Asia
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Indian Soldiers returned home after WWI ended
Indian soldiers come back to India after WWI, getting ready for the promised reforms of self-government. -
Rowlatt Acts
The british passed this laws. These laws allowed the government to jail protesters without a trial for as long as two years. -
Greek soldiers invaded turkey and threaten it to conquer it.
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Amritsar Massacre
Hinduisms and Muslims protested against the Rowlatt Acts by flocking to Amritsar. The british became alarmed by this and killed a lot of people. -
Gandhi emerges as the leader of the independece movement
Gandhi gains millions of followers because of his teachings of a lot of religions. He urged that the Indian National Congress followed a policy of noncoperation with the British goverment. Then later, they made the civil disobedience. -
Boycotts
Gandhi told his followers to stop from buying things from the British. -
Mustafa Kemal leads Turkey to victory
After winning against the Greeks, the nationalist overthrew the last Ottoman Sultan. -
Kemal becomes the president of the new Republic of Turkey
To achieve his goals he made: separated the laws of Islam from the laws of nation. abolish religious courts and created a new legal system based on European law, granted women the right to vote and hold public office, and launched government-funded prgrams to industralize Turkey and to spur economic growth. -
The Salt March
Gandhi and it's followers went to the seacost and start taking their own salt out of the water for protest. -
Persia Becomes Iran
Reza Shah Phalavi changed the name of Persia to Iran -
Britain Grants Limited Self-Rule
Great Britain passed the Government of India Act, which provided local sel-government and limited democratic elections but not total independance.