Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Treaty of Versailles

The treaty of Versailles is the treaty that ended the war in the palace Versailles. This ended the ww1 for the whole continent of Europe. the whole thing affected germany for their damage, they decrease the german millitary up to 100,000 men and cut their fleets in half. They were to lose also 13 percent of their land and also along with 48 percent of all iron production was lost long with the land. they also lost 16 percent of their coal production. They lost their most important resources with the war. they didnt just loose their important resources of war but they also lost their 12 of their people. They were either getting totured or used for hard labor. They were also increase so much taxes that they were going to a miserable time. this was very hard for the Germans. Then after all this disaster happened 20 years later a man named Hitler they needed a person to make them go foward. They were under his control immediately. he promised that he would make Germany a better place to live. He ignored the Treaty and brong up the German millitary more than 100,000 soldiers adn made more weapons and got back their land. They also increased their millitary fleet.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mustafa Kemal (atartuk) and the modernization of turkey.

Mustafa kemal is the first president for the country turkey. He was first to gain so much power in a short period of time when he transformed his nation into a more modern turkey republic nation. He was also a big inspiration for the world at large. after fighting in ww1 for the British he was also a liberator in 1919 for turkey. He also triumphed in freeing his country from invaders in 1923. he made it republic and then he wanted to change all lifestlye in turkey becuase he wanted them to live like Europeans. He wanted the turkish people to get rid off the fez hats that they wore and wanted them to were western clothing and werstern hats.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Film Lesson Gandhi

Gandhi helped his country gained independence from the british people by using this thing called non-violence. he thought if he used non violence from instead of using violence he thought it would make him look better if they are innocent and get to the other people see how brutal the people from great britian were. He would march with big crowds of indian people. to protest peacefully without hurting know one. He told his people that they will not raise a hand onm the British if they do dont fight back becuase that will make them look bad. He have conference meetings with high British authorities. Gandhi told them to wear their own clothes that they dont need to wear the British. Then he went some salt march were he use this idea to make salt because the indian ocean is part of India so they think its unfair that the British people could make their salt while that was theirs.