Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The treaty of Versailles(ended WW1)

The treaty was a document that ended WW1 it also was like a list of expecnces for germany as a results of the war.The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War OneRussian Revolution and other events in Russia.It was signed at the palace of versialles, thats where it got its name. some of the rules of the treaty were that germany had to give up all the land that they had,also they had to give up alot of their economic strenghts. i think that it was fair because they caused alot of damage and killed alot of people and they should pay for what they did. had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of the

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Ataturk or the founder of the turks as the turkish people called him was a man like many other he wanted change. Many leader like MLK jr and Gandhi were some of these they hated something in their life time and died trying to change it. Mustafa kemal was the same way he didn't like they ways of the Ottoman people. Like how they dressed, how everyone had to wear the fez he didn't like that so he gave speeches telling people to wear what the europeans wore hats, pants, shirts, and ties. Secular means of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Film lesson: Gandhi

In the movie, Gandhi wanted to help his country to be free. So something he did was made his own clothes and boycotted the brittish clothes he also showed his people how to make clothes.
When his people started using violence to fight the brittish Gandhi fasted until the stopped.Gandhi's philosophy was not to use violence he protested and held public meeting to show civil disobidence. The only reason that India got there independence was because of Gandhi if they didn't have him they would still belong to the brittish. One of the main factors in this event was the fact that the brittish were in WW1 so they really had no money and they lost alot of men in the war.