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Asia and Africa: Colonial Periods to Independence Movements

Explore key events from China's Opium Wars to Africa's Rwanda Genocide, including Japan's modernization and Latin America's independence struggle. Learn about influential leaders such as Sun Yat Sen, Gandhi, Ho Chi Minh, and Mandela.

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Asia and Africa: Colonial Periods to Independence Movements

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  1. China – Opium Wars/Treaty of Nanjing

  2. Boxer Rebellion

  3. Fall of Manchu – Sun Yat Sen

  4. Mao – Long March

  5. Communist Revolution – Mao Winning Farmers’ support

  6. Great Leap Forward

  7. Red Guards/Cultural Revolution

  8. Deng Xiaoping/Four Modernizations

  9. Three Gorges Dam

  10. Tiananmen Square Massacre

  11. India - Sepoy Rebellion

  12. Amritsar Massacre

  13. CasteSystem

  14. Indian national Congress – Muslim League

  15. Gandhi/ Civil Disobedience/Salt March

  16. Indian Independence/Partition – Mass Exodus

  17. Japan - Feudal society

  18. Tokugawa – Close Door Policy

  19. Japanese Feudal System

  20. Japanese Tradition Religion – Shinto – Spirits in Nature

  21. Commodore Perry – Gun Boat Diplomacy

  22. Meiji Restoration – Open Door Policy, Modernization, Militarization

  23. Lack of Resources – Location Near Korea and China - Colonization

  24. Russo Japanese War

  25. Japanese invasion of Manchuria, China

  26. Japan - Nanjing Massacre

  27. Atomic Bombs – Japanese Surrendered – End of WWII

  28. Japanese Constitution

  29. Ho Chi Minh – Nationalist Leader, Socialist, Founder of Vietnam

  30. Indochina, crossroad of SE Asia (Vietnam)– French/Japanese Colonization

  31. Aung San Suu Kyi/ Burma’s Democratic Leader

  32. Pol Pot – Killing Fields - Cambodia Genocide

  33. Berlin Conference – Scramble for Africa – European Colonization of Africa

  34. Created Territorial divisions and Tribal Disputes

  35. Rwanda Genocide – Hutu v Tutsi

  36. African Nationalist Leaders Jomo Kenyatta Kwame Nkrumah of Kenya (Mau Mau) of Ghana

  37. Pan-Africanism

  38. South Africa – Zulus – Great Fighters

  39. Apartheid – South Africa

  40. Nelson Mandela – Apartheid Fighter

  41. Ending Apartheid – Bishop Tutu/de Klerk Bishop Tutu De Klerk Mandela

  42. Latin American Independence – Unification Failed – Andes Mts, Amazon Basin

  43. Founding Fathers - Jose de San Martin/ Bolivar

  44. Toussaint L'Ouverture – Haitian Revolution Leader

  45. Fidel Castro – Cuban Founder/Guerilla Leader/ Gained Farmers’ Support

  46. Mexican Revolution - Porfirio Diaz/Francisco Villa/Zapata

  47. Mexican Revolution - Miguel Hidalgo

  48. Latin America - Cash Crop

  49. Latin American Social Hierarchy

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