Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Treaty of Versailles

The treaty of Versailles was made after the end of WW1 when Germany lost the war in July 28TH 1919. They lost the war to England France and United States. The losing side has to come to the winning side and sign a treaty. The treaty talks about how was the cause of everything and everything that happened was because of Germany. The Germany had to pay the winning countries millions of dollars each. In the result of this most was going through poverty and they also had to give up some of their lands and overseas holing in Africa and Asia.
Germany's situation was really and some of the citizen left to go to other European countries. Germany was in need of a new leader, Adolf Hitler was the one who step up he told the Germans that he would do anything to get Germany back in control again. I thought the League of nation were unfair to the Germans because they could not cause everything about the war you cant blame it on just one person

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey


Mustafa Kemal was the first president of Turkey he wanted to modernize Turkey and make them more like the European countries and less like the other Islamic countries. He wanted turkey to be secular meaning that thing that are not regraded as religious or spiritually. One way he thought he could modernize turkey was by the way they dressed. He wanted to abolish the "Fez" and bring in the hat with a brim. Mustafa Kemal wanted all the men to wear pants jacket and tie which was more European. His belief brought more rights for women and they had the rights to vote.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Film lesson:"Gandhi"


Mohandas Gandhi also know as Mahatma was one of the main person that fought for the Indian Independence. Gandhi had his own way for fighting for independence which was to nation blind" which meant if someone did something bad to you doesn't mean you have to do something bad to them.Gandhi didn't care what the British did to him they would sent him to jail so many times and he still didn't stop him. Gandhi told the Indian to boycott the British goods one way was that they didn't pay any clothing form the British. Instead they made there own clothing. Gandhi and his people walk 200 mile to the coast of the sea to make salt instead of being tax on it by the British. He practice nonviolence, if this follower use violence against the British Gandhi would fast until all the violence was finished