Major Events in Sudan History

  • The British Take Over

    Sudan gets taken over by the british so they can take their resources in the land class notes
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    Britsh rule over sudan

    through this time britian had control over sudan
  • Pacification

    Pacification
    in the first two decades of the 19th century the British conducted a pacification campaign in the southern sudan and nuba mountains class notes
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    Protection

    laws were passed to place tight controls on the South saying that the people who live there need "Protection" class notes
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    U.N. helps out

    the U.N. tries to help out but cant because of the china veto over it
  • abandaning of the southern policy

    abandaning of the southern policy
    the southern policy was abandoned after the juba conference by the colonial goverment class notes
  • no party for the south

    southereners were not represented at the 1953 Cairo Conference on their own choice because they had "No Party or Organization" class notes
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    first civil war

    this was fought over religion between the south and the north
  • Sudan is a free land

    Sudan breaks away from the british rule after 56 years http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14095300
  • oil is found in the south

    oil is found in the south
    oil is discovered in the south and the north wants it all which will cause a brawl between the north and the south http://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2005/04/oil-found-in-south-darfur-oil-issues.html
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    2nd civil war

    this war was basically a continuasion of the 1st civil war there was just a time of peace in between the two wars
  • Political Cartoon

    Political Cartoon
    this shows how no matter how hard the people tried to recieve help they couldnt get anyone to look there way
  • The lost boys

    The lost boys
    the lost boys were driven from their homes in south sudan because of the civil war was attacking their villages
  • Darfur Crisis

    Darfur Crisis
    the SLA and Jem began targeting the goverment because they were oppressing black Africans in favour of Arabs. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3496731.stm
  • weird law

    A British teacher was imprisoned for naming a teddy bear Muhammad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Sudanese_history
  • The children are coming home

    The children are coming home
    the children that went missing during the raids on their villages are finally coming home. northern tribes who have been helping the children giving them care can know the children are finally going back to their homes. http://www.sos-usa.org/newsroom/press-releases/Pages/South-Sudan-Welcome-Children-Home.aspx?gclid=CMjn6_bBv7MCFYYWMgodEUcAcw
  • political cartoon

    political cartoon
    this shows that the U.N. cam to help but didnt do anything about the genocide that was going on google images