Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WWI)

The Treaty of Versailles came on to Britian in a bad way and was basically blamed for World War 1. The nation was forced to pay compensation to the allies. The war made Germans accept responsibility but this had cost the Germans. Ten percent of the Germans had there land lost, some were taken away and shared between the allies and the massive, and about thirteen percent of the German ended up living outside the German border.
Some of the rules of the treaty were if you were not jews it wasnt easy for you to live there. This was wrong but then again it was right. This has helped out the nation in many ways.

Friday, February 13, 2009

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

The way Mustafa Kemal modernized Turkey was by making it more secular. And at the time when he did this he was president. When he had came in he a brung many changes with him. He had brought changes in the political, economic, and socail fields.
But one of the more important things he did was change the way the people dressed. The people dressed in dresses, sandles and turbens. He wanted them to wear regular clothes like regular people.
The secular change was to come in and take the releigion out of you. To like show them there's other ways and things.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Film Lesson- "Gandhi"

Gandhi had helped his nation gain independence from Great Britain. He believed in a philosophy of non-violence. For example if the british was to come over and attack them they wouldn't fight back. He believed that acts against the Britsh that was in a violent way would only led to a negative reaction.
Gandhi was willing to go to jail for himself and his people. This was because he thought it will just make the British look bad if they lock him away. He did things that only he would do. Like he would take his people to the sea to get sea water. The point of getting sea water was by getting salt out of it. And when he did this the british had something to do with the salt in india.

Extra Credit:
I think India's independence had something to do with Gandhi because he showed the people that violence isn't the way to settle problems. And he also showed other people from different places that we gonna stand up tall without fightin you or hitting back.

Friday, February 6, 2009