After World War 1, Germany was faced with a punishemnt. Because they lost the war. Germany had to sign The Treaty Of Versailles. The treaty of Versailles said that since Germany lost the war that everything what happened during the war was their fault. Germany now had to pay for all the damgaes that happened during the world to thier allies. Germany's miltary also had to shrink down to like 100,000 soliders. And Germany also lost some of it's land. Germany had so much to pay, their economy was now runined. They now had a poor economy now because the taxes were so high because they needed to pay off dues. The dues were very high in money. Most of the land that Germany had was given to their allies, which new country's formed. Germany lost alot of people in the war and in their population. I think that the Treaty was not fair out all. Germany wasn't the only one in the war. Germany did do some bad things during the war, they just wanted to win the war. I think that Germany should get blame but with the other countires that were with them. During the time the Germans lost they had a rough time getting back were they started. Their were doing so good at the beginning but then just went crashing. I do think that The Treaty Of Versailles did cause the rise of hilter. Becasue Germany wanted to be a powerful nation again. They wanted to have a good leader. And they thought Hilter was the right person. They thought he was a strong powerful leader. But later on they found out that Hilter was a bad and it was a bad idea picking him as a leader.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) Modernization of Turkey
Mustafa is the one who won Independence for Turkey. And he is also the one that found the Turkey Republic and was the first president for Turkey. Turkey was actually run first by Ottoman Empire. Mustafa goal was to modernize Turkey, we didn't want them to compare with the other country's. He made Turkey also secular, which means he put Religon on the Side, it wasn't a law anymore. Secular is when religious belief should not influence public and governmental decisions. In other country's Religon would be a Law. But he wanted to have it different for Turkey. He also changed the style in Turkey, he wanted to make his naton more outlook, European Hats replaced the fez, which the fez has a hat with a picece of a rope on top of it. Women would stop wearing the veil, citizens tooks surnames now, and also the Islamic Calendar gave way to the Western Calendar. The urban life of people's who lived in Turkey changed. Mustafa also introduced nationalism to Turkey. But for here Nationalism wouldn't be rascist. It would be to preserve the independence Of the republic of Turkey. Mustafa was the priesdent for a long time in Turkey. We made alot of changes to his nation. Like I said he made it more Modern.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Gandhi
Gandhi was a very important person for India. Thanks to him India got their Independence. India won Independence from Great Britain. Gandhi was a very smart person he would win India's Independence without violence. Because Great Britain was using violence most of the time, so Gandhi thought if they don't fight back and rebel in non violence way then Great Britain will look bad. Which was a very smart idea. At first the nation didn't listen to him, so Gandhi went on a strike you can say. He fasted for a long time, and then people noticed that he cares about their nation so they started to rebel in a non violence. Gandhi would always go on marches and the people would go with him, they would be on his side because they knew he was doing something good for their nation. One thing that Gandhi did was he made his own supplies. For example he made his own clothes, he boycotted. Clothes cost so much, so Gandhi wanted to rebel. Another thing he rebel for was slat. Great Britain put such a huge tax on salt. So Gandhi and a lot of his followers walked for 240 miles, to the ocean so they get salt, so they can boycott. Gandhi has helped India so much, to get their Independence. I think that thanks to Gandhi India got their Independence. Without him India would lose more people to the violence that was happening. Gandhi was a peace maker, he wanted to get Independence in a peaceful way. Gandhi was still angry when they won Independence because Muslims and Hindus were separated from each other. I think Gandhi Non-violence idea was brilliant. Thanks to Gandhi the nation of India didn't have to worry about getting their Independence anymore.
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