Treaty of Versailles

The treaty of Veresailles was the treaty that ended World War one. It was signed on June 28, 1919. Basically the treaty blamed Germany for the cause of the war. At the end, Germany took the blame and they had to end up paying expensives for the war. Before the war, Germany owned a bunch of land all across Europe and Asia. After the treaty of Versailles was signed, Germany had lost alot of their land to the Allies which were the United States, Britian, and France.
So after the treaty was signed and in place, Germany had lost alot of land, went into an economic depression and was basically defeated really badly by this war and the treaty. Since Germany was in a bad shape at that time Hitler came into the picture. Hitler promised them that he wil be the one to put Germany back into the shape it was once. That Germany would be powerful with the most powerful military and that they would regain all the land that they lost. Germany was desperate to be strong again so they gave into his ways and soon enough Hitler became a dicatator and the rest went down in history. This is why the Treaty of Versailles is very controversial now in days. If the treaty was never signed or if Germany was never blamed for the war than Germany wouldnt have lost all their land and never lost so much money and they wouldnt have gave into Hitler. Then Hitler woulnt have gone into power and the holocaust would have never happened, and a World War two would have never existed.
It seems that way but is it really true? Did Germany's blame of the war really cause this chain of events? The treaty was not fair in my opinion. The allies shouldnt have blamed Germany for the War. They lost alot in the war and took forever to regain what they had lost. Without this blame in this treaty, then world war two would have never happened and maybe the world would have been differently both econmically and politically.

Mustafa Kemal and the modernzation of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal modernize Turkey by making turkey a republican party. Before Mustafa came into the picture, Turkey was run by the Ottoman Empire. When Mustafa came into power, woman got the right to vote in the year 1934. He also introduced Turkey to secularism. Secularism is when Religion is seperated from all public affairs such as state laws, education, and cultural affairs. The laws in Turkey were now not based on religion anymore. Religion was treated seperatly and not used for the laws and other stuff. He also reformed the country of Turkey, replacing traditional concepts with more modern concepts. His revolution was based on the reforms he made in Turkey. Nationalism was also part of his revolution to moderinize Turkey. His idea of nationalism is not racism, its preserving the independence of Turkey and also to help the political development of Turkey. It respected the independence and the right to their own independence of each nation. Turkeys modernization was based on ecnomical and technological developments in Turkey.

Film Lesson- "Gandi"

Gandhi did a lot to help India gain its independence. India also went through a lot and without Gandhi, then they probably wouldn't have made it through all of that and gained their independence. Gandhi believed in a no violence revolution. So he refused to fight back if India fought back. There was a scene in the movie where the people that followed and believed in Gandhi where they would go up to the Indian policeman that were under the British Rule and then they would get hit by them. The civilians didn't do anything but get hit and then the woman just went up to them and took care of their wounds. It was just a chain and they kept going. It was really sad that they would just accept getting hit by their own people. Even though they were still under British rule they were still Indian.
Gandhi did a salt march in which Indians would go into the Indian ocean and get their own salt. They would do this in order to insure they weren't going to buy anymore from the British. In order to show that they would not give in into the British and that they can go on their own, then they would make their own salt. It was like an act of rebellion towards the British. There was also a massacre that changed everything. In the movie, after the Ami star massacre, Gandhi decided to make a non-violence revolution. He didn't want to be like the British and be at their level with violence so he did a non--violence revolution. His philosophy was that if it was a non-violence revolution, they would see that they are not like them. No i dont think India would have gotten their independence from Britain without Gandhi because he had alot to do with their independence.
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