Monday, February 11, 2008
The Treaty of Versailles (WWI)
As Known Hitler was a very powerful dictator who controlled very large armies of German troops. He was a very rebellious leader and had killed many people. He was in this alliance where Italy and France had like a treaty of peace between themselves. After the treaty of Versailles was made and Germany lost most of its power, they went into depression and Hitler couldn't stand this, so he gathered up a vast army and thus caused WWII.
Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and The Modenization Of Turkey
Mustaka Kemal took a decision that changed turkey completely. He decided to make the country of turkey completely non-religous. This affected turkey because religion influenced many people's culture's and its reallyhard to just change your whole life that was based on your ancenstors and religion just because this guy tells you to be non-religous. Mustafa Kemals idea was to modernize turkey and to make turkey like the other countries. Being modernized does not mean that you completely have to erase religion; that is where he went wrong and so turkey's religion was non-religuos until Mustafa Kemals was there.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Film Lesson "Gandhi
Gandhi was a great historical figure and made one of the biggest contributions to the world. He gave independence to India without having to use physical violence. Gandhi made several movements that the british would hate but can only win by using injustice. Gandhi started thinking that he can easily get Indian troops to fight the English but as he said "An Eye for an Eye only leaves the whole world blind". It means if the indians fight back it would only leed to more chaos and destruction. Gandhi used another technique that was very successful and actually legal; he didnt fight back. He would rebel against the british orders and when the british would arrest hurt or kill them he would just show resistance. There was a point where the british realized they were losing money, they started to look bad and were doing illegal things, at this point, the british gave up and india had won its independence.India lived happily but one day a seek killed Gandhi. Ever since Gandhi has been greatly honored and recognized all over the world.
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