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.

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.

The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was very important. It what changed Russia's government. In the old days Russia would have Czar's or Leaders. Russia had a Revolution because it was doing so bad. The people of Russia were being being controlled. The people were poor, starving, and barely had any hope in them. Czar's mostly cared about them and their families. They had no feeling for the people. The people couldn't wait until the revolution would start. So they started. The Russian People wanted to have peace and have everything going well in their country. They wanted change. Some important causes that started was the influence of World War One. Russia was losing so much people during this war. They were not industrialized. They had not much technology. The war was messing up their economy. That like i was saying the people revolted with Czar's. This is when a man named Lenin came with his group called the Bolsheviks. And he took over and was the new leader. He took the idea of Communism from Karl Marx he thought it was a good idea for Russia Government. And from that long time Russia is still a Communism Country. You can say now that Dictatorship was starting in Russia. When Lenin took over their was finally a peace in Russia. People were now happy with their government. Their economy was now on the right track. Lenin and his group the Bolsheviks had this famous saying that they made. "Peace, land and bread" It think this mean that thanks to Lenin and The Bolsheviks, Russia is now in peace which lead to their economy to go up and now they have anything they wanted now. Now they had more land which made Russia be normal again.

Causes Of WWI

World War One was a deadly war that happened. New army equipment were created for this war. Machine Guns, Poison Gas, Tanks and more. World War One also started to use trenches. Alot of people died during this war, there are many causes that started this war. One Very Important Causes that moslty started everything thing was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand On June 28, 1914. He was visiting Sarajevo. The Austria had many problems with Serbia, which they blamed them and this is what mostly triggered the War to start. When Austria demand war on Serbia then their alliance came in. Austria had Germany while Russia has with Serbia. And then so many countries came to this war. The war that started in Serbia and Austria changed in a chain reaction. Another important causes that happened during World War One was Nationalism. Nationalism is mostly the love of a country. This is mostly like racist was happening you can say. Because each country thought their country was the best. A lot of strong nationalist movements happened. Their were people demanding that they were the best. People would hang up posters and have speeches. And if another country would agree with them then they would form some kind of a alliance together. So they would have each other back with for example they went to war. Last but not least another important causes was Militarism. Militarism is moslty based of a government having a strong and huge military army and ready for war any time. During this a lot of new military technology was built. Like I was saying in the beginning machine guns were built and poison gas, tank and much more. Europe's military was very strong in every country. But this all caused a huge amount of Death. So these were the most important causes that caused World War 1 to happened.

Opium War

The Opium War was mostly started by Imperlaism. Great Britian wanted to get chinnse tea. And as you might figure out it was located in china. Great Britian wanted to buy the tea from china. But china did not want to sell it to Great Britian. They wanted wanted to trade so Great Britian agreed with them because it was one of England important resource and they were desapered for their tea. Great Britian had a good plan. They traded for Opium, which is a drug used to make heroine and more. The Opium Plant was located in India. And Opium was addicting if you smoke it or use it. So when Great Britian traded opium for tea to china. China said yes. But later on china was losing so much money because of Opium and like I said opium is addicting. China lost so much money from this trade because Opium was addicted. Now china had a problem because they had no money, so they stopped the trade. They destroyed all of the Opium that was left in their country. And stoped the trade. Britian got angery because China was the only one who had that speciated tea. So Britian when down to china and took some parts over. Which of course made China angrey. So they decided to go to war. But China barley had a amry because they wasted most of their money for the Opium Drug. China taxed the people so much that it was hard to buy things without paying a huge tax. When China went to attack England they lost because England had more army, money, and they had more technogly. After, this China and Great Britian signed a peace treaty with each other.

Film Lesson "Mountains of the Moon"

In the Film "Mountains of the Moon" it is very interesting the role of the movie. The two most important people in the Movie was Richard Francis and John Hanning Speke. They were the explores who wanted to find the Nile. Their were many hardships that the Europeans had to face. Their were always tribes attacking them or stealing the, when they were sleeping. They would have to work 10 miles a day. In the movie I think they walked like 200-300 miles in 6 months. The climate was horrible. It was dry and hot. And the African People who were traveling with them would die because of diseases happening and their would be alot of bugs their. In one part of the film John Hanning Speke lays down in his bed in his tent and he forgot to put a net over him so bugs wont go to him when we is sleeping. And you see how a bug went to his ear and it was pain for him. In a another part Richard Francis gets a spear across his jaw and later on in the movie he gets a disease and he can't walk. Richard Francis and John Hanning Speke named the source of the Nile River Lake Victoria because they were the one to find it. And they had power over Africa so if Africa tried to change the name, the British would take them over and get the name back. The primary technology that Europeans had over African people was that they had thermometers, Magnifying Glass, Guns and More. Europeans were more ahead in Technology. The Europeans were able to conquer Africa because they had better technology. Because the Europeans had guns and later on they found medicine for the disease that were located in Africa. And the Europeans also invented later on the machine gun. And Africa people only had spears. So compared to Europeans and African People, Europeans had more advanced technology.

Imperialism Project

We did this project so we can understand how Imperialism worked. Imperialism is when a huge country take over a small country. And that how colonies speared. It was mostly like bullying. The huge guys picks on the smaller guy. In this project we had to attach icons which stand for sugar, gold, silver etc. And we had to attach them were they belonged to their countries and draw shipping routes to show how people were trading. Imperialism was moslty the start of cultural diffusion. Cultural Diffusion is mostly when people trade food, cultural everything mostly. Their were a lot of colonies and they wanted to spread their thoughts and people. During this project I learned so much about Imperialism what colonies were involved this and what countries they took over. Mostly Europe and Africa were ruled over colonies. Each colonies had their own place to have. The new world was also used. Most of colonies was France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Great Britain and more. But I remember that Great Britain had most of their colonies spread threw the world. So like I was saying I learned a lot from this Imperialism Project.