Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WW I)


the Treaty of Versailles affected Germany at the end of WWI because since Germany lost the war they had to pay money to the countries that won and give up land they had in Asia.
some of the rules of the treaty was thatgermany had to give their coal to France and Belgium for 10 year,Germany must pay reparations (money and/or goods) to the Allies, germany was blamed for everything and made them pay for everything , it wasn't fair that they blame Germany for everything OK maybe they had something to do with it but everything wasn't their fault every country contributed to the war .
Some historians say that the Treaty of Versailles led to the rise of Fascism and Adolph Hitler. i thin historians say this because since Germany economy was on the floor had no money owed a lot to other they were desperate for some help so Hitler took advantage and said he was gonna make Germany strong again and he actually started to help and prove to Germany he was able to make Germany stronger but after a while people notice he was a little crazy.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey


 Mustafa Kemal (aka: Ataturk) modernized Turkey and made it more secular bye using these terms   Republicanism , populism , secularism , reformism , nationalism , statism. The  changes  he made were  that he changed  how people dress and  made them more modernized  , he gave women right to voted . secular means non religious for example  public schools are secular because they don't teach  religion in the other hand  private school do  teach  religious so they are not secular. also he said about  clothing  he wanted people to dress like europeans 
mans to wear pants ,shirt ,tie and no wearing  the hat called fez  instead  wear those hat the europeans wore .

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Film lesson: "gandhi"



 Gandhi helped India's struggle for independence from Britain through a campaign based on nonviolence and civil disobedience. "Nonviolence and truth are inseparable and presupposes one another. There is no god higher than truth." Some things  Gandhi did   was he  encourage people to not be violence, also when some Indians hurt  police man  he went on a  strike by fasting for a long time he was dehydrated  and sick but until people didn't stop violence he's  strike wasn't over. Gandhi also   wasn't wearing any British clothes  and he encourage people to burn it and not wear it. He went to jail for burning  a past that Indians need to carry around, he was arrested for trying too over throw the government, and many more, but never for  being violent.
his philosophy of non-violence was  that violence leads to more violence so Indians should be strong and  not hit but with violence but with peace. he didn't believe in the saying of an" eye for an eye". he though that eye for an eye was gonna let the whole world be blind.
i  think India's Independence was all about Gandhi because he didn't  give up he was arrest and abused many times but he didn't give up. He encourage the Indians people to not put their foot down to not give up of being colonize and having no right, or being govern  by the British. i think if he didn't tell the people to fight for their right they would just keep leaving the same  way.
about the time of Indian Independence 1947  the cold war going on with middle east and south Asia . this might had an influenced on India independence.


What was happening in Great Britain about the time of Indian Independence (1947) that may have influenced events?