The Treaty of Versailles(ended of WWI)

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty to end WWI between Germany and the Allied powers. The Treaty of Versailles affected Germany in alot of ways by paying compensation which was to pay for the war, ten percent of German lands were lost, their overseas colonies were taken away, and 12.5% of Germany's population were separated and were outside the borders of Germany. Germany's economy was ruined and they were getting broke. Many people in Germany lost jobs and supplies of food.
There are 440 articles in the Treaty of Versailles. Some of the rules of the treaty were that article 227 says, "charges former German Emperor, Wilhem II with supreme offence against international morality. He is to be tried as a war criminal." Article 228-230 says that, "many other Germans are war criminals." Another article; Article 231 states that, " the War Guilt Clause lays sole responsibility for the war on Germany, which would be accountable for all the damage done to civilian population of the allies."
I think the treaty was fair because it stopped Germany to gain more control and helped other people to be free and when Germany's land was broken apart, part of the ten percent of it's land became other countries. Historians say and believed that the Treaty of Versailles led to the rise of Facism and Adolf Hitler because Germany had lost some its land and were getting poor so lots of Germans believed in Hitler. Hitler wanted get Germany back into power and get back what they've lost. But the Germans didn't know he would wipe out the Jewish people.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal wanted to modernize Turkey to have a nation of, "dignity, equality, and happiness." He modernized and made it more secular in Turkey by having European hats replace the fez, women stopped wearing the veil, citizens took surnames, and made a truly secular system in Turkey that had a majority of Moslem and some Jewish and Christians were free to practice their faith.
Secular is the state of being separated from religion. The changes that Mustafa Kemal made was he had a political revoloution which was Republican because he believed it was the only republic regime which can best represent the wishes of the people. Another change was Reformism which meant that traditional concepts were eliminated and modern concepts were adopted. Other changes were also Nationalism and Statism. Nationalism preserved the independence of the Republic of Turkey. Statism is that the state was to regulate the country's general economic activity.

Film Lesson- "Gandhi"

After watching the movie "Gandhi," Gandhi helped his nation of India gain Independence from Great Britain by protesting without violence using civil disobedience. Some of the things he did was he protested on land tax, eased poverty, helping the woman's rights, and protested on British-imposed salt tax. HIs idea of nonviolence was to require strength and courage in a nonviolence way. It was a strategy for social change that rejects the use of physical violence.
I think that India's Independence was not all about Gandhi. I think it was more about coming together as people and going against the British because it was Indian people's country and they wanted rights. Gandhi wanted the same as for his people and after the Independence, Muslims and Hindus came together. In Great Britain about the time of Indian Independence that may have influenced events was World War II. It influenced World War II because during the war Britain spent a lot of money to provide the army.