Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Treaty Of Versailles


Germany was really affected by the end of World War I, at then end of the war, France built a treaty called the Treaty Of Versailles. This treaty was a peace treaty that ended World War I, that stated that Germany must accept responsibility for causing the war, and had to pay for the damages, and this left Germany without money and a depression in Germany. Germany was suppose to pay France and Britain, lost a lot of military power and were forbidden to use large ships. After 10 years, Adolf Hitler tried to overthrow the German government, and was placed in jail for 9 months, but he wrote about how Germany is to blame for it's weak government and made speeches that caught the people's attention, and blamed outsiders from Germany and blamed the Jews.

Monday, February 12, 2007

How Mustafa Kemal modernized Turkey

Mustafa Kemal was the leader of Turkey, he was known as the Father of Turkey, and how he modernized Turkey was that he made the culture make it look more Western. Like, he thought Turkey looked too much of Muslim culture, and wanted everyone to be customed to American and European culture, wearing shirts and pants instead of robes, and Muslims would wear a fez, a kind of Islamic headgear, Mustafa encouraged the people to wear hats. Mustafa didn't like the behavior of women when they hid their faces with cloths, he wanted it to end. Mustafa made Turkey more secular, secular means like relating to other nations.

Friday, February 9, 2007

Gandhi


Gandhi helped India gain it's independence by using civil disobidience, he encouraged the people of India not to purchase British Goods, not to send their children to British schools, and not to pay their taxes. Another way Gandhi helped India gain their independence was the Salt March, the government said that people must purchase government-made salt, and Gandhi went against the new tax on salt, and walked 240 miles to the sea to make salt, almost 60,000 Indians followed him.

Friday, February 2, 2007