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