The Treaty of Versailles (ended WW I)

The Treaty of Versailles was a treaty made up by the French and the English. This treaty ended WWI, Germany went to Versailles, France and had to sign it as a loss of defeat. This treaty was totally unfair, it basically blamed Germans for everything. The treaty said the Germans caused WWI, the Germans was responsible for all the lives lost and the German was responsible for the expenses of the war. The Treaty of Versailles as you can see was a totally unfair treaty, but the Germans couldn't do anything about it because they lost the war. After WWI the Germans went through a depression and many people didn't have or lost their jobs. WWI also impacted the Americans because the Germans borrowed some money from the Americans and that led to a American depression.
In 1923 a guy called Adolf Hitler tried to overthrow the government and was sent to prison. During prison he wrote a book and that book was basically about the Germans losing the war because of the weak government Germany had. Hitler then promised he was get the people out of the depression and people believed him. They wanted a strong leader. In January 1933 Hitler and his party the Nazi took over Germany. Hitler blamed the Jews for everything, he then became a dictator. Eventually this led to WWII and historians say that it was the Treaty of Versailles that led to WWII, i agree with this because the treaty took an huge impact on Germany and that's when they needed a leader to guide them through it. That's when Hitler came in and it led to WWII

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Before Mustafa Kenmal became the president, he was a military leader. He fought for the independence of Turkey which was known as the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was a  country full of muslims before Turkey got its independence. Mustafa then became the 1st president of Turkey for 15 years. During the time he was a president of Turkey he tried to modernize the people of Turkey. He wanted the people to dress more like the Europeans and American. He wanted the people to be more secular meaning he wanted the people of Turkey to be less religious. One thing he did was he banned fez, a fez was a brimless hat that the people of Turkey wore. He also didn't want the people to wear the long dresses. He stated that he wanted the state of Turkey to have free privileges of certain stuff. He created a Secular government before he passed away.

Film Lesson: "Gandhi"

Gandhi was born on Oct 2,1869. Mohandos  Karamchand Gandhi an Indian philosopher who fought for the independence of India which was under the control of the British. Gandhi fought against the British using non-violence, he believed that violence will only lead to more violence and that wasn't what he wanted. He led his people to boycott the British, in other words Gandhi told his people to not buy anything from the British. He told his people to stop buying British goods and to make their own cloths. The salt march was one of the things that Gandhi did, the salt march was when Gandhi and his people would walk 10 miles a day to the sea ocean and make their own salt. This was totally illegal, the British  didn't let people make their own salt without their permission. In the end India got their Independence and Gandhi was the savior of India, but Gandhi didn't complete everything he did. He also wanted the Muslim and Hindu to get along and live together, but this never happened and now the two religions are separated. Most muslim now live in Pakistan.

Extra Credit: I think India wouldn't have won their independence from British without Gandhi because no one would have the guts to lead India and if India was to use violence against the British, the British would have won because of their technology. World War II happened when India won its Independence from the British. Another reason why the Indians won their independence from British was because British couldn't be worrying about India while fighting Hilter in WWII