INDIA,PAKISTAN/ CHINA
The British controlled India for many centuries. Forced their culture on the Indians, and made the Indians serve them, and made all unjust laws.
Chinese Emperors unable to stop European and American predators. Civil wars broke out as factions fought each other over what to do about the foreigners
Communist Mao Zedong Nationalist led by Jiang Jieshi they opposed each other and fought a civil war
Mao won the civil war because he won over the peasants the majority and the women
After fall of dynasties China tried to become a democracy but the people were not educated enough.
People thought Jiang was cruel and unjust. He also thought the problem with China was it's people, he blamed them.
As China becomes communist Mao's goal is to enforce equality and industrialize China by coming together, and become a socialist society using collectivization .
Enforced this by putting people in communes to get payed equal do equal work and have the same amount of food.
At first was a success but, started to fail once they overused soil for crops and overestimated how much food they could make, leading to famine
Mao started the cultural revolution to gain power again after fail of Great Leap Forward, Took power away from the people with education because their education made them more powerful, and he forced equality
Enforced it by giving power to the kids who were called red guards and violently denounced those with any bit of power and followed everything Mao said.
Mao later dies and Deng comes into power
Deng developed China as a fast growing economy, he brought in more western ideas and capitalism, but called it Chinese socialism and still applied it to communism. But he was still the dictator
As Western culture spread more people found out about democracy in the US , Chinese people wanted more freedom and wanted to be able to have more control over the government with a democracy. SO students protested in Tiananmen Square
The protest went on for so long Deng then decided to give the protesters three days to leave until he would bring in the army. No one left, he killed many.
Indians tried to peacefully protest for independence and self determination but they were killed or violently stopped.
Indians tried to fight but they were always overpowered and just lost many lives, and they were always sighted by the British.
Mohandas Gandhi finds the answer and brings India together to have civil disobedience and not follow unjust laws. Example boycotts and strikes from british laws and products
Forced to do non violence and not fight back to the harsh treatment of the British, this makes the British look like terrible people.
British do not have enough power to force millions of British to follow their rules
British give India freedom and give independence to 2 different countries India for the Hindus and Pakistan for the Muslim
Great Migration for the Muslims and Hindus to go to according country, was dangerous because violence between countries, casued many deaths along the borders