The Treaty of Versailles(ended WWI)

The Treaty of Versailles affected Germany at the end of WWI in many ways. Germany took all the blame for WWI. They had to reconstruct all countries involved in WWI. They also had all there overseas colonies taken away as well as all the other ones they had taken over. Not only did they lose all of these things they also lost a lot of military people and were excluded from the legue of nation.

I think that the treaty of versailles was extremley unfair! I like many others believe that the treaty of versailles is what cause WWII. They put all the blame on germany and lowered its power. They werent even able to reconstruct there contries completely.

Historians say that the treaty of versailles led to the rise of Fascism and Adolph Hilter because the treaty of versailles was unfair. They believe that they came back looking for revenge. to regain all the power they once had.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal (aka: Ataturk) modernized Turkey and made it more secular. He made many changes and passed many laws. Secular means not pertaining to or connected with your religion. He believed it was necessary to abolish the fez. He created the Republic of Turkey in 1923, establishing a new government truly representing of the nation's will.

Not only did he modernize turkey he as well aspired to freedom and equality for all. He also wanted the people to wear more modern clothes instead of the robs and religious clothes they wore before.

Film Lesson - "Gandhi"

Yesturday in class we watched a film on Gandhi. I noticed that he had a great impact on India gaining it's independence. He pointed out in many ways that the Brititsh weren't being fair to the Indians while it was their homeland. They taxed clothes and salt while it was their natural resources. He had many people that supported him and would follow the things he did. Him and his people had a salt march and went to the ocean to collect salt because the British was taxing the salt. The British afterward went and beat the Indians and arrested them.

Not only did they have a slat march and stop the british from making money off them, they also began to make there own clothes. The British would take there cotton make the clothes in Britain and ship it back to India where they had to pay more for the clothes. Through out all this protest they showed no violence. There was a few times that certain people would slip but they made the British look bad because they would not fight back. Ghandi got Indias independence without any violence or rebel.