Person1878 – 1944
Manuel L. Quezon
Philippine statesman who negotiated independence with the United States and became the first president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935
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The US Congress passed a law promising Philippine independence after ten years, and the Commonwealth government took office with Manuel Quezon as president.
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- National Movements in Asia and Africa1915 – 1948
From the Hussein–McMahon correspondence to the founding of Israel — three decades in which India, West Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa, swept up in the tide of self-determination after the First World War, pressed toward independence and modernization