1. Revolution and Nationalism, 1900-1939

2. Imperial China Collapses
Section 3

3. Journal 1. What parts of the world were taken over by Europeans?
2. How was Japan different than China? (page 376)
3. How would you feel if you were ruled by a foreign power?
Africa, China, India
Modernized unlike china (education and military) –
China is ruled by foreigners – many people want them out

4. Nationalists Overthrow Qing Dynasty
Sun Yixian, leader of the Nationalist Party, overthrows Qing emperor (1911)
Modernization
Nationalism – an end to foreign control
Democracy
Powerful general Yuan Shikai takes over
Civil war breaks out
Real power falls into the hands of warlords or powerful military leaders – they ruled territories as large as their armies could conquer

5. May Fourth Movement (1919)
Student protest Chinese government’s weak response to Treaty of Versailles

6. Communist Party 1921 organized by Mao Zedong
Together with the nationalists (Jiang Jieshi) fight the warlords
Nationalists massacre the Communists and take control of China
Pesants are going to side with the Communists because they give them land they won from the warlords
The communists who survive are furious

7. Civil War Mao takes his forces to the countryside
Nationalists surround the Communists and force them on a 6,000-mile-long journey (Long March)
Japan invades in 1937 and civil war temporarily stops

8. Nationalism in India and Southwest Asia
Section 4

9. Indian Nationalism Grows
Hindu Indian National Congress (1885)
Muslim League (1906)
Million Indians serve in British army in WWI but self-government is not granted
Rowlatt Acts – British jail protestors without a trial

10. Amritsar Massacre British had banned public meetings
British fire without warning
400 Indians die
Uh-MITS-Rhur

11. Gandhi and Nonviolence
Civil disobedience – deliberate and public refusal to obey an unjust law
Nonviolence
Asked Indians to not buy British goods (cloth), attend their schools, pay taxes
Factories shut down
Jails were overcrowded

12. Salt March British place tax on salt
Gandhi and followers march 240 miles to the coast to make their own salt

13. Limited Self-Rule Government of India Act – limited self govt.
Issues between Hindus and Muslims

14. Nationalism in Southwest Asia
Ottoman Empire collapses after WWI
Mustafa Kemal becomes pres. of Turkey and modernizes
New legal system
Women can vote

15. Nationalism in Southwest Asia
Nationalist leader Reza Shah Pahlavi modernizes country
Persia is renamed Iran
Public school, railroads, women’s rights

16. Nationalism in Southwest India
Saudi Arabia keeps Islamic traditions
Telephones and radios brought in but no democracy

17. Assignment Indian Action Amritsar protest Boycotts Salt March
British Response
British troops fire on unarmed crowd
Sale of British products drops
Police officers club demonstrators

18. Make a poster
Use photographs, drawings, and/or captions to persuade others to join the independence movement