Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The Treaty Of Versaille (end WWI)


The end of World War I was a victory for The Triple Entente and a defeat for The Triple Alliance brought by The Treaty Of Versailles. But towards the end, Germany was blamed for all of the damages in every counrty around the world that was affected.
The Treaty of Versailles brouht major provisions. One of those provisions was the Leage of Nations. It was an international peace organization that consisted of 32 members: both allies and other neutral countries. Among those were the "Big Three: U.S., France and Britain". Another provision that affected Germany in a great way was Territorial Losses. As aresult Germany had land removed from all over the world and later other countries were formed. The third major provision was Military Restrictions. Germany was forced to limit their navy and army to almost 100,000 men and to remove their army and navy from Rhineland. The last provision was War Guilt. This ment that Germany was blamed for everything and was forced to sign and accept the consequences. This left a resentment of anger in all Germans.
In fact many historians agree that this was what led to WWII and that Adolf Hitler and his fascism. A desire of revenge and to recover everything that was lost.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal became the reformer of Turkey. He brought turkey to the moder world of Europe. But to make it large, he had to start with the most minimum thing: that was their clothing. Mustafa Kemal wanted to get Turkey out of the traditional world.
He wanted the Turks to get rid of their 'Fez' which was their tradional hat and modernize it to a brimmed Panama hat. But that wasn't it. He wanted to create a feeling of nationalism, which is like pride to ones country. Mustafa Kemal wanted the turks to get out of the religious feeling and it to a secular state, or a non religious state and giving women poewer and rights. Mustafa Kemal was eventually called ATATURK-meaning father of the turks.

Friday, February 9, 2007

Film Review "Gandhi"

GANDHI: India's Leader To Independence.
India was found to be in the darkness under the British rule for over 200 years. It was full of harsh treatement and seemed to be at it's end. British people were very much prejedice towards the Indiand people and didnt seem to care about them and the Indian people were getting tired. Yet little did they know that there was another way of confronting the British.
Mahatma Gandhi was their leader for India's independence. He was aleader who used passive resistance and non-violence. In, other words the British did everything to him and the Indian people but he would not fight back. This I belive is the strongest way of fighting back because the Brithish would eventually get tired that they did not repond back. One of the mst impacting things that he did was when he decided to make his own clothes.
I thought that this was a great impact because now the Brithish wouldn't make as much money as they would if the Indian people were buying from them. It brought their economy down. Indeed that his passive resistance led to an impact in India that would later lead them to independence. Although I do think that most of their independence was led by Gandhi because he was the one who inspired the others to step up for their rights. I don't think that it would of happened anyway because no one was standing up for their rights yet. Gandhi's step surely led to India's independence especially considering that countries like England were involved in Hitlers' position in WWII.