16454818 abstract word cloud for nationalism with related tags and terms

Nationalism after WWI

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  • Hindu Indian National Congress

    Hindu Indian National Congress
    Hindu Indian National Congress was formed to rid India of foreign rule

  • Unification

    Unification
    Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud, a memeber of the once-powerful Arabian family, began a succesful campaign to unify Arabia. In 1932, he renamed the new kingdom Sudi Arabia after his family.

  • Muslim League

    Muslim League
    Muslim League was formed to rid India of foreign rule

  • Amristar Massacre

    Amristar Massacre
    Misunderstanding between the British and the Indians. Indians (Hindus, muslims, sikh) went to pray and listen to political speeches in a festival, the festival was viewed as a nationalist outburst when it was not. The British General misundertood and ordered his soldiers to shoot the masses.

  • Turkey becomes a Republic

    Turkey becomes a Republic
    Greek soldiers invaded Turkey and threatened to conquer it. The Turkish sultan was powerless to stop the Greeks.

  • Rowlatt Acts

    Rowlatt Acts
    British passed the Rowlatt Acts (Laws that allowed the government to jail protestors without trial for as long as two years.

  • Civil Disobediance

    Civil Disobediance
    The Congress Party suppotrted Civil Disobediance (refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government)

  • British taking over Persia

    British taking over Persia
    The British tried to take over all of Persia, in 1921 a persian army officer seized power. In 1925 he removed the ruling Shah (Reza Shah Pahlavi)

  • Mustafa Kemal

    Mustafa Kemal
    After the Greeks threatened that they would conquer Turkey, Mustafa Kemal succesfully led Turkish nationalists in fighting back the Greeks.

  • Mustafa Kemal for President

    Mustafa Kemal for President
    Mustafa Kemal became president of the new Republic of Turkey, the first republic in Sothwest Asia.

  • Oil Drives Development

    Oil Drives Development
    European and American companies discovered enormous oil deposits in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

  • Salt March

    Salt March
    Gandhi organized an organization to oppose the hated Salt Acts. According to these Gritish laws, Indians could buy salt only from the goverment. To show that Gandhi was opposed he walked with the people by his side, 240 miles to the seacoast. were there they began to make their own salt by using/collecting seawater and letting it evaporate.

  • Reza Shah

    Reza Shah
    Reza Shah changed the name of the country from the greek name Persia to the traditional name Iran.