by: marissa earl, marcelo ortiz, abby rinere, and natasha dennison nationalism
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By: Marissa Earl, Marcelo Ortiz, Abby Rinere, and Natasha Dennison
NATIONALISM
LATIN AMERICAN FREEDOM
• Spanish king Ferdinand VII overthrown by Napoleon
• Napoleon put his brother Joseph Bonaparte on throne to rule Spain and its colonies
• Latin American countries, formally under control of Spain, wanted freedom
• Venezuela first to gain freedom
LATIN AMERICAN FREEDOM
• Simon Bolivar b. 1783, d. 1830 – Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
• Francisco de Miranda – Venezuela
• Jose Antonio Paez - Venezuela
• Antonio Jose de Sucre – Ecuador, Peru
• Gran Columbia
Simon Bolivar
UNIFICATION OF GERMANY
• German National Assembly- 1848
• Danish War- 1863
• Austro-Prussian War- 1866
• Franco-Prussian War- 1870
• Official Unification in 1871
Otto von Bismarck
MEXICAN REVOLUTION• Mexicans revolted after decades of the hacienda system and
dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz
• Porfirio Diaz overthrown from power and political unrest began
• Civil war and revolts spread throughout Mexico
• The war ended once Emiliano Zapata was assassinated by Carranza
• Obregon overthrew Carranza and sought reform
Mexican soldiers during the civil war
MEXICAN REVOLUTION EFFECTS
• Hacienda System ended; the land was divided up and distributed to Indian communities and peasants
• Many Mexicans crossed over the border to the United States to escape the fighting in the civil war
• Civil war ended with Obregon in power
• Economy revised to support the growing middle class
• Businesses became focused on banking and manufacturing
• New constitution
• Went from dictatorship to democracy
INDEPENDENCE OF GHANA• 1902- Ghana becomes a Britain colony
• Kwame Nkrumah led boycotts and strikes
• 1954- Nkrumah becomes president and prime minister of Ghana
• March 6, 1957, Ghana became independent
• 1960- Ghana becomes a republic
Kwame Nkrumah
INDEPENDENCE OF KENYA
• 1919- Britain claims Kenya as a colony
• Gave land to white war veterans
• 1952- Mau Mau Rebellion
• October 1952- 7-year state of emergency
• December 12, 1963- Kenya became independent
• 1964- Kenya became a republic
• Jomo Kenyatta became first prime minster and later president of Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta
WAOI FACTS
• German Unification Day celebrates the anniversary of German Unification; Oktober Fest has been moved to occur around the same time as this day.
• Ghana was the first country in Africa to gain independence
• Porofirio Diaz served a term as dictator for 34 years