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1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War ends in Russia’s defeat
1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement divides Ottoman Empire; Lucknow Pact forms alliance between Hindus and Muslims in India; New Culture Movement in China begins
1917 Balfour Declaration establishes Jewish homeland in Palestine
1919 Amritsar Massacre in India; May Fourth Movement in China; Treaty of Versailles; Afghanistan achieves independence
1920 King of Syria deposed by French; Gandhi launches campaign of nonviolent resistance against British rule in India
1920s–1930s Large numbers of European Jews immigrate to Palestine; Hebrew becomes common language
1923 Sun Yatsen allies Nationalist Party with Chinese Communists; Treaty of Lausanne ends war in Turkey; Mustafa Kemal begins to modernize and secularize Turkey
1925 Reza Shah Pahlavi proclaims himself shah of Persia and begins modernization campaign
1927 Jiang Jieshi, leader of Chinese Nationalist Party, purges his Communist allies
1930 Gandhi leads Indians on march to the sea to protest the British salt tax
1931 Japan occupies Manchuria
1932 Iraq gains independence in return for military alliance with Great Britain
1934 Mao Zedong leads Chinese Communists on Long March; Philippines gains self-governing commonwealth status from United States
1937 Japanese militarists launch attack on China; Rape of Nanjing