Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WW I)


The treaty required Germany to change the boundaries of the countries and also places Germany had owned. The treaty also created the League of Nations also took away the colony that was lost in the war. German disagreed but they were forced to accept the treaty, which included the things they had to do or give to the countries. Germany stop giving the Allies lots of things like coal, livestock, money, ships, timber, and other resources. The allies took away Germany’s colonies because of things they do to other countries during the war.

The Treaty of Versailles caused World War II by making the Germans mad. They were mad because they got their land, natural resources, and livestock, taken away. They military had to stop fighting, and many other things. These things made them mad and they wanted to fight back the countries that made them give away their lands. Then came Adolph Hitler, he promise Germany to get back all of there land and to lead them to a brighter future.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey


Mustafa Kemal (aka: Ataturk) modernize Turkish and made it more secular, he gave his nation a new sense of dignity, equality, and happiness. After more than three centuries of high achievement, the Ottoman Empire had declined from the 17th to the early 20th Century. Atatürk came and lead his country out of the decline past into a new future.

In his way of modernization, secular government and education played a major role by religious faith. A matter of sense of right and wrong, he created a secular system in Turkey, where the huge Moslem majority and the small Christian and Jewish minorities are free to practice their faith. Where all citizens men and women, rich and poor equal before the law. It gave Turkey a firm foundation for a society of justice and equal rights.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Film Lesson: "Gandhi"


Gandi helped his nation of Indain gain independence from Great Britain by going a boycott, which means to stop doing buying, selling, or dealing someting. Gandi and his people protested in a nonviolence way by doing this it will make the British look bad because they not fight back but taking their abused. He told his people to stop buying clothes because they were the one picking the cotton to make it and it was going to Britain to be made into clothes sell back to the Indians.

He stops this by telling people to start weaving their own cloths. He would spend two hours a day sinning his own clothes. The other thing he did was starves himself when his people would try to fight back. He also did a salt march to the seashore to make his own salt because the Britain would make slat and sell it to the Indian people and using the Indian people. By doing this Britain would lose a lot of money and it was a problem for them so the give them indecencies.