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Chinese Nationalists oust the last Qing emperor, Puyi
The Kuominntang, the nationalist party of China, and tits first great leader, Sun Yixian, ovrthew the last emperor of the Qing dynasty, who had ruled china since 1644. This was done in order for Chian to modernize, something they have been ready to do. They wanted to build up the army, navy, construct modern factories and businesses and improve the school system. -
World War I begins as Austria declares war of Serbia
Austria had a very large Slavic population, and servia had many slavs, and was hoping to gain all the slavs on the Balkan peninsula, including the ones that were in austria. AUstria attempeted to rallly up Austrian nationalism because they feared that Serains newfoaund nationalism would cause a rebellion among its slavic population. The austrian heir to the throne was assasinated by a serbian, and this was the last straw for Austria; they then declared war on serbia. -
US Enters the War
The us had previus alliances with Britian, German sumbarines sank a british passanger ship named Lusistania and dthe Zimmerman telegraph, a telegraph sent to mexico, inviting the mexicans to join the germans in fighting the US, were the three reasons why the untied states entered the war;. -
Armistice signed as Allies defeat Central Powers
On a train in paris, both a german and a french official happened to be on board, and an agreement to stop fighting, an armasiste, was signed after the second battle of the marne, where the central powers lost. The allies began to move inward which closed in on the central powers leadig to their loss. This armisistce marked he end of ww1. -
Ghandi Leads Indian Campaign of Civil Obedienc
Gandhi launched civil disobediene campaaign to weaken and limit the british goveenments authority and economic power over india. Gandhi called for indias to refuse buying british goods, attend gov. schools, vote or pay British taxes. Gandhi also had his folllowers go on strike, the british then sturggled to keep the trains and factories working, or the overgcrowded jails from bursting.The salt march was made to show the opposition to the taxes on british salt. Followers walked 240 miles to sea. -
Mustafa Kemal transforms Turkey into Republic
Mustafa Kemel led he Turkish nationalists in fighting back the greeks and thier biritish backers. AFfter they won, the nationalists threw over the last ottoman sultan. Kemel then becamet he president of the new republic of turkey; the first republic in southwest asia. He seperated the laws of islam from the laws of the nation, abolished religious courts and created a new legal system based on european law, and he granted woman the right to hold office and vote, and industrialized. -
MaoZedong heads Long March
Jiang gathere an army of 700,000 men and they surrounded teh communisnts mountain strnnghold. The communists were outnumberd, and were defeated. Many comunist forces fled, and they began a 6,000 mile journey called the long march. Thousands died from hunger, cold, battle wounds, and exposure. After a little more than half a year, Mao and the seven or eight thousand communist survivors settled in caves in China.
