Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WW1)


The Treaty of Versailles affected a lot on Germany. I really think they went over board on the Germany. Germany was forced to give up land to other countries when they lost, and because of this Germany lost everything. Every damage that was caused during WW1 was blamed on Germany. And so the conclusion of this, Germany got angry, they grew stronger as the years past with great leader known as Adolf Hitler. So many of the countries think that the treaty of Versailles was the cause of WW2. Some rule of the Treaty was that Germany was forced to give up lands to certain amount of Countries, so they lost land. Another important rule that affected Germany was that they had to have a limit of solders in the Army of Germany.
I personally think that the treaty was not fair. If the treaty was more fair then most likely World War 2 could of been avoided. That what i think. What they did to Germany was too much. I know that they started World war 1 but they didn't have to blame everything on them.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey.



Mustafa Kemal was first a very brilliant commander. He was commander during the time in when Greek solders invaded Turkey. After this had happened, he became the 1st president of the modern Turkey. as he took over he changed a lot of laws and things and tired to be different. He created new laws, new religious courts and created new Legal system based on the European law. Those many new things that Kemal gained also granted women more freedom. Another huge difference that he did. Granted women to vote and get to hold public office. What i think was really weird to me was that he even set out rules about clothes. He said " a civilized, international dress is worthy and appropriate for our new nation. And we shall wear it. Boots and shoes on our feet, trousers on our legs." I think what he tired doing here was trying to make Turkey look good.
He even asked workers to like wear some special type of clothes to make them look like as if they are really working. He required his government workers to wear some kind of western style business suits and banned the fez. He did all this in order to make Turkey a modern country of Europe.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Film Lessons; Gandhi


Gandhi was a great man. For all the things he did for his country. Which is India. The things that he did was pretty incredible. He didn't want violence in order to make the British notice them. Eventually India got there independence. Gandhi deserved to have his own holiday for what he did. Gandhi made the British hear them. The most incredible thing that impressed me the most when Gandhi found out that the Indians used violence, he would punish himself for what other peoples mistakes. The way that he punished himself was by not eating any food or drink anything until the violence would stop. Then he would start eating. Not only did he get people to not to do violence but he was getting what he wanted.And soon enough he got India Independence. Plus during that time, Britain was involved in World War 2. So I blame Great Britain to let them go.