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The first Independence war of India was in the north and in the center of India. It lasted a year. The causes were because of the different ethnic and cultures.
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Two groups formed to rid India of foreign rule: the primarily Hindu Indian National Congress, or Congress Party, in 1885, and the Muslim League in 1906.
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Indian troops returned home from the war.
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British passed the Rowlatt Acts.
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10,000 Hindus and Muslims flocked to Amritsar, a major city in the Punjab
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Greek soldiers invaded Turkey and threatened to conquer it
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Gandhi organized a nation-wide Satyagraha which used non-cooperation techniques, as well as public demonstrations, in order to “withdraw Indian support from the vast, monstrous Machine of Empire until it ground to a halt”
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European and American companies discovered enormous oil deposits in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.
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the British arrested thousands of Indians who participated in strikes and demonstrations
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Congress Party endorsed civil disobedience, the deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law, and non- violence as the means to achieve independence.
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The British arrested Gandhi for writing articles advocating resistance to colonial rule.
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Brilliant commander, Mustafa Kemal successfully led Turkish nationalists in fighting back the Greeks and their British backers.
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Kemal became the president of the new Republic of Turkey, the first republic in Southwest Asia.
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Gandhi organized a demonstration to defy the hated Salt Acts.
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Gandhi went with 78 followers on a 241-mile march to the coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea.
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Gandhi went to a meeting that was a disappointment. The British leaders had acknowledged started to realize how he was powerful and that he was a subject that couldn't be ignored
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He renamed the new kingdom Saudi Arabia after his family.
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Gandhi announced a fast unto death" as part of his campaign to achieve equality for this downtrodden caste. He never actually achieved to have "equality" but he helped a lot.
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The British Parliament passed the Government of India Act.
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He changed the name of the country from the Greek name Persia to the traditional name Iran.
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Gandhi burned all clothes that were made with English cloth
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Kemal dies
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Gandhi does not eat unyil all Indians do not act on violence
