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A Portuguese king by the name of Manuel I sent the navigator to find a sea route to India in 1497.Da Gama reached the port of Calicut on the coast of Malabar.
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On October 2 1869 Mohandas Gandhi.Gandhi introduced non violent protests to India and to the rest of the world. He gained many followers through his teachings and techniques. From that, he got lots of support in non violent protesting helping gain independence.On January 30 1948 Mohandas Gandhi.
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On August 6 1945 The US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.After the war the US helped Japan out in the rebuild Japan by helping them with military, political, economic, and social reforms. They helped people who didn't have land get land and helped out destroyed buisnesses.
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On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when soldiers from the North Korean Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed north and the Republic of Korea to the south. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf.To the Americans it was a war against communism itself.Americans wanted to end communism for once and for all.
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The Great Leap Forward was five year plan that was created to develop agriculture and industry.It lasted from 1958 to 1963 and People in a commune gave up their ownership of tools, animals etc so that everything was owned by the commune.People died during this period.
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In 1966, China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government.He wanted to keep communism in China.
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In the 1950s the French was in control of Vietnam and India.In the 1880s the French owned most owned most of Asia.Ho Chi Minh made a communist nationalist movement which many Indians join to help fight the French so India could gain independence. Ho Chi Minh also defeated Japan in war in order to free Vietnam and also to make Vietnam a communist country.
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In 1989 people were protesting because the government declared martial law.Chinese soldiers came in and killed the protesters and rolled in a tank.
