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May 21, 2024 · Arab Spring, wave of pro-democracy protests and uprisings that took place in the Middle East and North Africa beginning in 2010, challenging some of the region’s entrenched authoritarian regimes. Demonstrators expressing political and economic grievances faced violent crackdowns by their countries’ security forces.
1 day ago · Order of independence of African nations, 1950–2011. The decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa that spanned from the mid-1950s to 1975, during the Cold War. Colonial governments gave way to sovereign states in a process often marred by violence, political turmoil, widespread unrest, and organised revolts.
4 days ago · Indian National Congress, broadly based political party of India. Formed in 1885, the Indian National Congress dominated the Indian movement for independence from Great Britain. It subsequently formed most of India’s governments from the time of independence and often had a strong presence in many state governments.
May 21, 2024 · Congress declared war on April 25 and made the declaration retroactive to April 21. Spanish-American War (1898), conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. The U.S. emerged from the war a world power, and ...
May 21, 2024 · Toussaint Louverture (born c. 1743, Bréda, near Cap-Français, Saint-Domingue [Haiti]—died April 7, 1803, Fort-de-Joux, France) was the leader of the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution (1787–99). He emancipated the enslaved people and negotiated for the French colony on Hispaniola, Saint-Domingue (later Haiti ), to ...
May 1, 2024 · CAUSES FOR THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT End of Salutary Neglect due to wars being fought in North America (French and Indian War) → British looking for tax revenue to pay war debts limit colonial expansion as a way to reduce attacks from Natives maintaining forces in the colonies to protect them against Native American resistance was expensive ...
2 days ago · Mexican Revolution (1910–20), a long bloody struggle among several factions in constantly shifting alliances which resulted ultimately in the end of the 30-year dictatorship in Mexico and the establishment of a constitutional republic. It began with dissatisfaction with the elitist policies of Porfirio Diaz.
