My point is simple. The US freed 200 million in Europe, while 1.5 billion were freed by Gandhi (I am using today's population figures). 

Just pointing out the Euro-centerism of people here. History is basically Euro-story. There is a much bigger world out there.

I am curious to see how Sun Yat Sen was violent. His overthrow of the Manchus was very peaceful. Chiang Kai Shek had to fight a violent civil war afterwards.

I wouldn't call Ho Chi Minh liberation of Vietnam from the French as a civil war. The Vietnamese were not considered French.