-
Mohandas Ghandi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. -
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister, politician and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pakistan on 14 August 1947, and then as the Dominion of Pakistan's first governor-general until his death. -
Indian National Congress
Advocated for more representation in government for educated Indian elites. Called for minor social reforms, advocated for increased communication between British Raj and local elites. -
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, statesman and author who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a principal leader of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s. -
Civil Disobedience
Gandhi adopted the term "civil disobedience" to describe his strategy of non-violently refusing to cooperate with injustice, but he preferred the Sanskrit word satyagraha (devotion to truth). -
Satyagraha
(devotion to truth). -
Jomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta CGH was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. -
Ayatollah Khomeni
Ruhollah Khomeini, also known as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian political and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989 -
Constitutional Revolution
The Persian Constitutional Revolution, also known as the Constitutional Revolution of Iran, took place between 1905 and 1911 during the Qajar dynasty. The revolution led to the establishment of a parliament in Persia, and has been called an "epoch-making episode in the modern history of Persia" -
The Muslim League
This was a league set up by Muslims in India to give them equal rights and to be protected by the Indian law, and seen as equal by the Hindus of India. -
Period: to
Congo Independence Movement
-
Kwame Nkrumah
Francis Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He was the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana, having led the Gold Coast to independence from Britain in 1957 -
South African Independance
The British gave them independence -
African National Congress (ANC)
Worked with the government to give the native African people a voice in the country and have equal rights. The African National Congress is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election installed Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa. -
Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, at the time an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population. -
Nelson Mandela
a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. -
The Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, more well known in the west as Mohammad Reza Shah, was the last Shah of the Imperial State of Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow in the Islamic Revolution on 11 February 1979. Owing to his status, he was usually known as the Shah -
Period: to
India Independence Movement
-
Pol Pot
Pol Pot was a Cambodian revolutionary, dictator, and politician who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. -
Patrice Lumumba
a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was the leader of the Congolese National Movement (MNC) from 1958 until his execution in January 1961. Ideologically an African nationalist and pan-Africanist, he played a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a colony of Belgium into an independent republic. -
Fidel Castro
A Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. -
The Salt March
A 24 day march in India to protest England's taxes against slat to the Indians. Gandhi organized this and he was in jail while it happened. He wanted a "mass civil disobedience" -
Kenyan African union (KAU)
At inception, the party's objectives included advancing African interests, constitutional reforms, and fighting for better living and working conditions for Africans. KAU also helped coordinate nationalist activities and to unite Kenyan Africans towards a common cause. -
Pan Africanism
This is the attempt to create a sense of brotherhood and collaboration among all people of African descent whether they lived inside or outside of Africa. -
Period: to
Algerian War for Independence
-
The Partition of India
The Country of India was partitioned into two countries, India for the Hindus and and Pakistan for the Muslims to satisfy the religious tensions in India, but it only caused more tension, which is still apparent to this day. Up to 2 million people died trying to cross over to their respective "country". -
Apartheid Sets In
Literally means "aparthood," the white Afrikanners descended from the English settlers, the Native Black Africans, and other parts of the population, including Indians and other Asians, were all separated from each other and had designated things they could use for each "colored person" POC were treated as less during this time, the whites superior. This happened until 1990, when it was taken down all all could live together and have equal rights......sort of. -
Palestine
Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a state located in the Southern Levant, Western Asia. The capital is Jerusalem. -
Period: to
South Africa Apartheid
-
Accra Riots
A protest march by unarmed ex-servicemen who were agitating for their benefits as veterans of World War II was broken up by police, leaving three leaders of the group dead. Held in present day Ghana. -
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
tells all the rights a human is intitled to have and cannot be taken away from them. -
Period: to
Ghana Independence Movement
-
Detention Camps in the Mau Mau Rebellion
the British put many innocent Kenyans in detention camps where they were starved, beaten and tortured, as well as forced to do slave labor. -
Period: to
Mau Mau rebellion
-
Period: to
Cuban Revolution
-
National Liberation Front
It started initially as a liberation movement, driven by anti-colonial ideology. It gained independence from France after the Algerian War. -
Assasination of Patrice Lumumba
He was a political leader in the Congo, and was assassinated by a firing squad but nobody knows who sent the attack out. -
London Independance Conference of 1962
The English decided if Uganda should gain their independence. -
Evian Accords
The Évian Accords were a set of peace treaties signed on 18 March 1962 in Évian-les-Bains, France, by France and the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic, the government-in-exile of FLN (National Liberation Front), which sought Algeria's independence from France. -
The Kikuyu Tribe
The Kikuyu were the first native ethnic group in Kenya to undertake anticolonial agitation, in the 1920s and '30s. -
The White Revolution
The White Revolution successfully redistributed land to approximately 2.5 million families, established literacy and health corps targeting Iran's rural areas, and resulted in a slew of social and legal reform. In the decades following the revolution, per capita income for Iranians skyrocketed. -
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
The Palestine Liberation Organization is a Palestinian nationalist political and militant organization founded in 1964 with the initial purpose of establishing Arab unity and statehood over the territory of former Mandatory Palestine, in opposition to the State of Israel. -
Period: to
Cambodian Civil War
-
Six Day War
Israel defeated three Arab armies, gained territory four times its original size, and became the preeminent military power in the region. The war transformed Israel from a nation that perceived itself as fighting for survival into an occupier and regional powerhouse. -
The Khmer Rouge
Communist party of Cambodia. Wanted to make all civilians the EXACT same. Killed or tortured innocent people to make every single person in Cambodia equal. None of the party members have served jail time to this day. -
Period: to
Iranian Revolution
-
The Hostage Crisis in Iran
The Iran hostage crisis was an international crisis that began in November 1979 when militants seized 66 U.S. citizens in Tehrān and held 52 of them hostage for more than a year. The crisis took place in the wake of Iranian Revolution (1978–79). -
Nelson Mandela becomes First African President
he had been arrested for trying to fight for African's rights, but then he was pardoned by the President. He ran for office and won, but only served one term before retiring.