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Hindu Indian National Congress was formed to rid India of foreign rule
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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.
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Muslim League was formed to rid India of foreign rule
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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.
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Greek soldiers invaded Turkey and threatened to conquer it. The Turkish sultan was powerless to stop the Greeks.
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British passed the Rowlatt Acts (Laws that allowed the government to jail protestors without trial for as long as two years.
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The Congress Party suppotrted Civil Disobediance (refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government)
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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)
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After the Greeks threatened that they would conquer Turkey, Mustafa Kemal succesfully led Turkish nationalists in fighting back the Greeks.
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Mustafa Kemal became president of the new Republic of Turkey, the first republic in Sothwest Asia.
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European and American companies discovered enormous oil deposits in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
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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.
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Reza Shah changed the name of the country from the greek name Persia to the traditional name Iran.
