ASIAN INDEPENDENCEASIAN INDEPENDENCE Post World War IIPost World War II
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How are the countries of Southern and Southwest Asia similar and different?
INDIA
INDIAN HISTORYINDIAN HISTORY India is one of the 4 oldest civilizations in history. Home of Hinduism & Buddhism – Belief in Reincarnation Hindu Caste System: reward or punishment for previous life – Untouchables—people without caste
MUSLIM CONQUEST OF INDIAMUSLIM CONQUEST OF INDIA Introduced Islam to India – Shah Jahan Build Taj Mahal Hindu population were sometimes discriminated against Sikhs combined religious ideas from Hinduism and Islam
BRITISH IMPERIAL INDIABRITISH IMPERIAL INDIA 1750’s British East India Trading Company 1857 Sepoy Mutiny 1886 Indian National Congress began fight for Indian Independence
MOHANDAS K. GANDHIMOHANDAS K. GANDHI fought passport system in South Africa 1930 Salt March 1947 India became independent “Live simply so that others can simply live.”
INDIA & PAKISTANINDIA & PAKISTAN
NEHRU JINNAHNEHRU JINNAH Prime Minister Modernized India Equality for women & untouchables Died 1 year after Pakistan became independent
PROBLEMS FACING MODERN INDIAPROBLEMS FACING MODERN INDIA Overpopulation: Birth Control Green Revolution tripled food production Religious conflict: Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs Political Assassination
BANGLADESH East Pakistan not treated equal 1971 independent from Pakistan Modern secularism Monsoon Flooding
PROBLEMS FACING PAKISTANPROBLEMS FACING PAKISTAN Benazir Bhutto elected 1988, assassinated 2007 Growing threat of Islamic extremists including Taliban & Al Qaeda Pakistan Nuclear Weapons Program
SWAT VALLEYSWAT VALLEY
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MYANMAR Military dictatorship Aung San Suu Kyi Non-violent civil disobedience Won Noble Peace Prize Under house arrest for last 14 years
B2 STOPPED HERE ON 5/6B2 STOPPED HERE ON 5/6 B3 and B4 Keep GoingB3 and B4 Keep Going
ARAB ISRAELI CONFLICTARAB ISRAELI CONFLICT
ISRAEL, 1949ISRAEL, 1949
PALESTINIAN REFUGEESPALESTINIAN REFUGEES
Gamal Abdul Nasser President of Egypt SUEZ CRISIS SUEZ CRISIS Nasser began modern Islamic & Arab Nationalism
Six-Day War (1967 Six-Day War (1967) Israel gained – West Bank (Jordan) – Golan Heights (Syria) – Sinai (Egypt)
B3 & B4 STOPPED HERE ON 5/6B3 & B4 STOPPED HERE ON 5/6
Palestine Liberation Organization Yassir Arafat fought for a nation for Palestinians within the nation of Israel
Peace between Israel & Egypt Camp David Accords (1979) President President Prime Minister Anwar Sadat Jimmy Carter Menachem Begin of Egypt of the U. S. Of Israel
Uprising within Israel Palestinian Intifada ( )
Can the Palestinians & Israelis live in peace?
GROUP INSTRUCTIONSGROUP INSTRUCTIONS Take turns reading the timeline aloud. Mark each date as –P (Palestinians are to blame) or –I (Israelis are to blame); or B for both or N for neither. Decide who you think is most to blame in the conflict—the Arabs or Israelis. List the factual details that support your choice.
IRAN.
Shah of Iran (r – 1977) Institutes Western reforms. Majority of his people live in poverty. Brutal suppression of dissidents Q5
AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI LED REVOLUTION
IRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISISIRANIAN HOSTAGE CRISIS American Embassy held hostage
52 Americans Held Hostage for 444 Days!
AFGHANISTAN
TALIBAN Islamic Fundamentalist Group Gave refuge to Osama Bin Laden & al Qaeda in 2001 Mistreat women
TERMS Sharpeville Massacre: Sharpeville Massacre: in 1960, police gunned down 69 peaceful protesters in a black township; beginning of violence in South Africa Soweto: Soweto: site of 1980’s student protest movement in South Africa