Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Mustafa Kemal And The Modernization Of Turkey

- Mustafa Kemal aspired to freedom and equality to turkey, when he became leader he quoted that the new Turkish State is a state of the people and a state by the people. To give his nation a modern outlook, Atatürk introduced many reforms. European hats replaced the fez. Transformation took place in the urban and rural life. Its also said that few nations have ever experienced anything comparable to the social change in Atatürk's Turkey.
-secular-
pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred temporal.

Film Lesson On Gandhi.

-Some of the things Gandhi did was making his own clothing and that led his people to do the same thing so they wouldn't buy from the British. He told the Indian population to stop paying taxes particularly the tax on salt, So they traveled to the Arabian Sea where they made salt by evaporating sea water but then Gandhi was arrested. Gandhi Refused to eat when he found out his people were fighting back at the British when they were being beaten, He wanted to prove that he didn't use violence for anything so then his people stop and he came off of his eating strike.

-Gandhi's philosophy of none violence was that he never used it because he wanted to prove himself as a leader and show that he didn't need to use violence back at the British to succeed in becoming a leader. Gandhi used it affectively by showing the British that they can beat his people as much as they want but they wont use it back but many people were hurt in this case.When Gandhi found out his people used violence back to make his people stop he wouldn't eat until they stopped.

Extra Credit:
- I think India's Independence was all about Gandhi because if it wasn't for him the Indian population would have been the way it was before Gandhi was in the picture. They needed someone to lead them to independence. World War 1 had a lot to do with India's Independence around that time






Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The Treaty Of Versailles

-The Treaty Of Versailles effected germany in many ways. Germany Was the one to take the blame for world war 1 so they basically had a lot to do with the treaty. They lost a lot of land and many priorities such as principals:12% of thier population, 13% of thier territory , 16% of all coal production , 48% of all iron production , 80% of pre-war fleet and 100% of thier pre- war colonies. Historians say that fascism and adolph hitler had something to do with this because germany was weak and adolph hitler basically told them that he was going to take over and make them do what he wanted to do.