Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The treaty of Versailles affected Germany in a major way. It said that Germany had to take blame for starting the war and for the casualties, it also stripped Germany of their land and their overseas colonies like some places of the spice islands and it took away parts of Africa and they had to pay for damages . The Treaty also limited Germany's military they were only allowed to have 100 thousand soldiers. Germany was in so much debt from the treaty that they wanted vengeance so then came the rise of Adolf Hitler. I think the treaty was unfair and just put the blame on Germany who didn't even start the war.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Mustafa Kemal and the Modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal was born in 1881 in Salonica which use to be part of the ottoman empire and it is now a city in greece. Mustafa Kemal was a military leader and a hero he lead the turks out of a liberation struggle and led them to freedom. In his idea of modernization education and government played a big role.Mustafa kemal was president for 15 years until he died in 1938 he was a great leader to his people and adapted the name attaturk which means father of the turks.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Gandhi

Gandhi helped the Indians gain independence by teaching the Indian people civil disobedience which is refusing the British laws using peace. Gandhi used peace as his main weapon, he knew that if he used non violent protests he will get the British to attack them and the British would be the bad people. Gandhi also constructed the salt march which was the protest against the salt tax and Gandhi and the Indian people walked 240 miles to walk to the Indian ocean to get the salt from the water. Gandhi was a great leader to his people, some people did hate the fact he was trying to make the Hindus and Muslim join together in India and that's what led to his assassination