1923 to 1930 · Haitianspan

An agricultural school frightens the elite more than any gendarme did

The Service Technique set out to make a landowning Black peasantry, and Port-au-Prince recoiled.

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1923 to 1929 · Haitianspan

Haiti had two school systems and neither one taught the peasantry

Thirty thousand government pupils mostly on paper, twelve thousand in church schools kept for the elite.

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1923 to 1966 · Africanspan

Settler self rule in Southern Rhodesia splits the African nationalists

Nkomo's ZAPU and Mugabe's ZANU divided in 1963 along Ndebele and Shona lines.

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29 October 1923 · Diaspora

Turkey becomes a republic and moves its capital to Ankara

The assembly amended a two year old constitution and elected Mustafa Kemal president.

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