Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WW I)

The Treay of Versailles ended World War 1 in a bad way. It caused the Germany to clean up every single thing that they messed up, ruined, damaged, misplaced, or destroyed during World War 1. This was unfair because Germany alone did not do this as well as England and France and other countries also ruined things in Germany and other countries. Germany was forced to repair everything and this happened for the next 10 years.

Adolf Hitler rose to power so he can industrialize Germany once again as the other rulers did so Germany can be a big power like other European countries. As the years went on and on, Hitler industrializred Germany and it was once again a super power that had guns, supplies, surplus of food, big buildings, and lots of engineering. Then Hitler said that they will kill the jews because they did this to us and that they are dirty. The germans listened to him and started WW2

Some historians say that because of the Treaty of Versailles, the germans had to clean up them mess which angered adolf hitler and germany. The germans got really pissed off and started WW2 which was considered caused by the Treay of Versailles

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal was a man of Turkey that fought for the country and served as the first ruler as a president of Turkey.
He wanted to modernize Turkey like in America and Europe. The thing that he didn't want was to lose the country religion. He still wanted to have Islam as a religion, but didn't want top be as Muslim as the other countries with Islam as their main religion. 
Mustafa Kemal didn't allow Fez as a show of ignorance to the other Islam Countries which was secular in because he wanted to make the people of Turkey were hats shoes, and other clothes as the Europeans did. He got them most of the same technology as the Europeans and the Americans had and Turkey now wants to be part of the European Union. Mustafa Kemal was later known as Ataturk for modernizing Turkey as Gandhi did for his country.

Secular- a doctrine that doesn't allow/permit something religious against a religion.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Film Lesson: "Gandhi"

Gandhi lead India to its independence during the year of 1947. The moment when he got kicked off the train even dough he bought a first class ticket, he knew that something needs to change. He created a movement in order to prevent the british from damaging India. The Idian pople wanted to be free but the British didn't let them. The British were in control of all of India.
As more British wanted to be free, they started to listen to him and later to follow him. Gandhi said that in order to be free, they must use non-violence. The more time the Indians got, the more time they spent making their own cloth, food, and other supplies. But what they did not have was salt which was very important to them, but the British did. The people of India had to buy salt from British and pay taxes. So then Gandhi went with his men to the ocean on a long journey of around 240 miles in order to get salt of their own, not from the British.
As the British saw how the Indians following Gandhi made their own salt and cloth, they started to get angry but yet they didn't stop taking control of India. So Gandhi and his people went to the british and revolted without violence until they the Indian's were free. They got their freedom back and British control fell apart.
Gandhi was shot a year later as a result of him wanting people of 2 different religions living together.

Extra Credit:

I think that one day, the people of India would have rebelled until the British would have no positive results from controling India. The British would then leave or lose money. World War 2 was occuring at the time and ended at 1942 which made England a little all over the place and weakened.