HIST 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: May Fourth Movement, Mao Zedong, Easter Rising
Document Summary
Lecture 23: the world turned upside down: wwii and the birth of a new world order. Less recognized but important elements of world war ii. Focus on the prologue and epilogue to the war. Rise of anti-colonial nationalism during the interwar period. First 20-30 years of nationalist--sentiment accommodated imperial sphere. Small militant group central dublin armed revolt. When the british come in and shell post office and execute ringleaders, the mainstream irish opinion becomes a call for independence. 1922 irish free state--north and south partition. India 1917--british trying to secure imperial support. Trade off: montague declaration: no timeline for this. Indian nationalists read this as a cash to be checked at the end of the war, they don"t keep this promise. When they cash the check at the end of the war 1918-1919, british crackdown on indian nationalist opinion. Indian nationalists driven to this by failure of colonial powers to live up to 14 points--anti-colonial nationalism.
