Monday, February 11, 2008

The Treaty of Versailles (Ended WW I)


When the world war I ended, German had been defeated. German had lost a lot of soldiers and military powers. At the end German was forced to sign a treaty and had also lost a lot of land. The treaty was called the Treaty of Versailles, which was very effective to the German people. The treaty limited the rights of the people. German couldn't make big ships or build any king of military power. Another of the laws in the treaty was to pay the damage of the war to Great Britain and France. United States couldn't lend money to Germany during the depression of America. As a result German faced several depressions. the German people thought that the treaty was unfair and also wanted a fair government that can save them from the situation that they are in. Thats the time Hitler came in and wanted to overthrow the government.

Friday, February 8, 2008

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey


Kemal reforms made a political revolution. He represented the modern Turkey. Republican regime is the only thing that best represents the wished of the Turkey people, which Kemal believed. The Ottoman Empire controlled Turkey through 17th century to 20th century.
In his 15 years when he was president until his death, he changed and modernized Turkey. He created a modern secular system where the all the religion are free to participate their own way and which is the way Turkey reformed. As a result, he created a secular country which is very unlike to other countries.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Film Lesson: Gandhi


The main person that led the work of India's independence was the mahatma Gandhi. He led the whole nation to aright path that helped everyone in India and also tough the main point in humanity, how to be proper human who never uses violence to accomplish what they want to accomplish. Gandhi led a lot of peaceful protest. One of the protests is that Gandhi didn't buy any cloths from British, he made his own cloths and encouraged the whole India to do the same. That way British lost the cloth market. Another famous protest was when he and a lot of other people marched to the sea to make their own salt. But it was illegal to make salt. everyone had to buy salt from British. The people protested outside the gate and the British police kept injuring Indian people, but no one fought back. When the people thought of fighting them back, Gandhi started to protested to the people as well by fasting because he believed that fighting back is only going to make things worse. his famous cote is "an eye for an eye will end up making the world blind"
Even if Gandhi weren't there to lead the Indian people, the independence would have came anyway. At the end of all the protests, right before the independence, the British got involved in the world war I and then the British didn't have time to control India and also stop their protests.