The Treaty of Versailles (ended WW I)

The treaty of Versailles affected Germany at the end of WWI by making them pay for everything that they caused. Germany was who had to pay for the damages caused by the WWI to the countries that won, because they were the ones who started the WWI. Also since they had lost the WWI they had to give up their 10% of lands in Asia. Germany tried to deny the treaty but weren’t able to so started to protest. They had to go along with the rules of the Treaty and couldn’t just ignore it because they were the ones who actually lost the WWI. Some of these rules were Germany had to pay back everything to the allies. Germany also had to give up coal to Belgium and France and also lower the army men they had. I don’t believe that the treaty of Versailles was fair because Germany wasn’t the only country fighting in this war there were other countries that were defending each other. By just making Germany pay isn’t fair. Some of the historians say that the Treaty of Versailles led to the rise of Fascism and Adolph Hitler. I think that historians say this because it seems reasonable because Adolph Hitler was German and saw everything was taken away from the Germans. His thought was getting revenge but he took the power he had to far. So much taken from the Germans that they needed someone to bring the country back to its feet but it didn’t turn out so well with Hitler.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal was the first president and Turkey and he had his ideas on how to be more modernized like England, USA who wore anything they wanted and were modern not like. This is how Mustafa wanted to be, him as president let him make his own laws and people of Turkey would have to obey or that is just breaking the laws he created. The people of Turkey weren't allow to wear fez which is a type of hat but without the borders to cover the sunlight so instead of fez they wore regular hats but the hats must have a border around it. Also men could only wear regular clothes like how the Western people did. The women wouldn't be able to wear a veil or the ottoman clothing. Mustafa didn't want no one in his country to wear any of it or anything that had to do with the Muslim clothing tradition. He didn't want go along with the rules that the other Muslim country had. This made Turkey become more modernized and secular. Where secular means to not have anything to do with anything about the religion they have. The people of Turkey named him Ataturk which means "Father of the Turks", they had given him this name for his gratefulness.

Film Lesson: "Gandhi"

Gandhi helped his nation India to gain independence from the British using non violence. With using non violence to gain independence he would protest and make marches. Gandhi started out with throwing away the government passes because only the Indians had to carry around everywhere while the British didn't have to. Gandhi found it wrong that they were the only one's who had to carry it around everywhere while they were suppose to be treated like the British. The British police man had beaten him and Gandhi didn't fight back he just kept putting the papers into the fire until he couldn't move anymore. Gandhi also made a boycott for the English products. The English would gather the cotton from India because it was easier and than go back to England to make the clothing and sell it to the Indians. Gandhi told everyone not to buy any of the clothes and taught them how to spin their own clothing. Than there was also the Salt March where him and a group of people walked 240 miles to the Indian Ocean to make their own salt.This was because they weren't able to make their own salt, they had to buy the salt from the British. The British decided to ignore it because it wasn't hurting them or anyone.

Non violence worked very well with Gandhi because no matter how much the British man would attack the Indians he had never used violence or thought about using violence against them. Gandhi never went along with the quote "An eye for an eye" he believed that if you go with this quote the violence would never finish. Than a group of Indian man who were protesting attacked a couple of police men and also burned down their a police station for assaulting a couple of Indian men. This disappointed Gandhi very much so to stop the Indians from using violence he started a fast until they would use non violence instead. This convinced them to stop with the violence and go with the non violence because they didn't want to Gandhi to die and still be a powerful leader.

I believe the only way the Indians gained their independence was because of Gandhi. He stood strong the whole time and was a very powerful leader which inspired others. He took everything the right way with non violence so it didn't make them look mad at all. It would make the British look bad because they were the ones who would use the violence against the Indians. If there was someone in India who would gain the independence for India did what Gandhi did than they might of gotten their independence. During 1447 the Indians would have fought for the British during the World War II. This would only have happened if they didn't get their independence.