The Treaty of Versallies

The treaty of versailles was written in 1919 at the end of World War I. This document restricted Germany in many ways.First thing was that they had to pay reparations to all the countries. Then they could only have a 100,000 men army and could not use submarines and ships were restricted to carrying 10,000 tons of cargo. The major set back was that Germany's land overseas was distrubuted to the other countries and most of the land was given away. This also left about 7 million germans outside the new boarders.
With the high reparation cost Germany fell into depression which then Adolf Hitler came about and tried to overthrow the government. He failed the first time but then after serving nine years in prison came back and got power. Adolf hitler came into power because people wanted a leader to restore them to greatness. His way was that only pure germans should hold the future of germany and nobody else.
I think the historians say the treaty of verrsailles caused this because of the way everything played out. With the harsh punishment it caused the depression. Then when the people started to look for a new hope. This was Hitler came along, then with his confidence he won the people over and then started to kill off the people that opposed him.Then that was when problems started. This is why i think historians say that the treaty caused this

Mustaf Kemal and the modernization of Turkey

Secularism was the seperation of religion and state. Also it meant seperating religion from everything and getting rid of the restaints that religion puts on thinking. This allowed for more ideas to be relized since they did not to worry about their religious beliefs limiting them.
Mustafa Kemal a.k.a Atatuk which meant father of the turks was the person who helped Turkey get their independence from the Ottoman empire. Atatuk first appered as a general in 1915, and faught off any invaders and after some impressive victories in 1923 Turkey got thier independence and the Republic of Turkey was created. He served as the president for 15 years until his death in 1938.
Atatuk made many changes to the government as well as the social society. He introduced the idea of Secularism which was the abloishment of relgion from all laws. Then he added a new Civil Code, Penal Code and Buisness law. He also made everybody rich or poor equal to the leagal system.In the social scene girls didn't have to wear veils and the calendar was changed to the western style instead of the Islamic calendar. Also the people got to pratice their faith without fear of consequence.

Film Lesson: "Gandhi"

Gandhi wasn't like famous nor was he someone of great importance before he helped India people get their freedom from Great Britain. Gandhi used the idea of civil disobedience to fight against the British government . Civil disobedience is when you don't fight back and just do things like the salt march without any incidents of violence. Gandhi philosophy was that if you have an eye for an eye then the whole world ends up blind which was one of his famous quotes. This ment that you cannot fight violence with violence, he didn't fight so that way Britain looked bad. He had did many things that helped India. The first thing he did was that he made his own cloths and told everybody to burn the cloths they had bought from the British government. Another thing that he did was the Salt March in 1930. This was when him and a group of people walked to the coast approximatley 248 miles away. Then they took the water and let it evaporate to let them have salt. With the British having a monoply on salt they got angry and lost money. This was when they began to arrest the people helping Gandhi with the salt. When they had imprisoned Gandhi after the salt march the people went to the Daharsha salt factory and tried to get in. The guards then began to hit them but they did not fight back they just got taken care of by the woman then just keep trying to go in. This made the British government look very bad. India had got its independence in 1945. Then in 1948 Gandhi was assassinated and killed by a hindu radical.