Editing 1930s (section)

====Asia====
[[File:Marche sel.jpg|thumb|right|[[Mohandas Gandhi]] on the [[Salt Satyagraha|Salt March]] in 1930]]
* Major international media attention follows [[Mohandas Gandhi]]'s [[Nonviolent resistance|peaceful resistance]] movement against the British colonial rule in India.
* [[Chinese Communist Party]] leader [[Mao Zedong]] forms the small enclave state called the [[Chinese Soviet Republic]] in 1931.
* The [[Gandhi–Irwin Pact]] is signed by Mohandas Gandhi and [[E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax|Lord Irwin]], [[Viceroy of India]], on March 5, 1931. Gandhi agrees to end the campaign of [[civil disobedience]] being carried out by the [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) in exchange for Irwin accepting the INC to participate in roundtable talks on British colonial policy in India.
* The [[Government of India Act 1935|Government of India Act of 1935]] is enacted by the [[Governor-General of India]], separating [[British rule in Burma|British Burma]] to become a separate British possession and also increasing the political autonomy of the remaining [[presidencies and provinces of British India]].
* Mao Zedong's Chinese communists begin a large retreat from advancing nationalist forces, called the [[Long March]], beginning in October 1934 and ending in October 1936 and resulting in the collapse of the Chinese Soviet Republic.[[File:First pictures of the Japanese occupation of Peiping in China.jpg|thumb|right|Japanese march into [[Zhengyangmen]] of [[Beijing]] after capturing the city in July 1937]]
* Colonial India's [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]] leader [[Muhammed Ali Jinnah]] delivers his "[[Day of Deliverance (India)|Day of Deliverance]]" speech on December 2, 1939, calling upon [[Muslims]] to begin to engage in civil disobedience against the British colonial government starting on December 12. Jinnah demands redress and resolution to tensions and violence occurring between Muslims and [[Hindus]] in India. Jinnah's actions are not supported by the largely Hindu-dominated [[Indian National Congress]] whom he had previously closely allied with. The decision is seen as part of an agenda by Jinnah to support the eventual creation of an independent Muslim state called [[Pakistan]] from British Empire.