The Treaty of Versallies (ended WWI)

The Treaty of Versailles had a really bad effect on Germany. After the war was over, Germany was blamed for everything. It was said that Germany was the cause of the war. They had to take responsibility for all the damage that happened. Germany even lost some of their land because of the war.

I think that historians would say this because at that time, Germany was in need for a leader. With Hitler, Gemany thought that the counrty would become stronger. Then, Hitler became a dictator. He was against the Jewish people, so he killed them. Anybody else who would go againt Hitler was killed.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

The people of Turkey looked up to Mustafa Kemal as a father. In his eyes, Turkey was not modernized.

To modernize Turkey, he wanted to change the way they dressed. He wanted the people to look formal and professional. He got rid of the Turkish headwear called a fez and make people wear a hat with a brim. He also enforced shirts and ties. The also had to wear nice boots or dress shoes. They also had to wear jackets.


secular: things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred

Film Lesson: Gandhi

Without Gandhi, I think that India would have been under British rule longer. He was the brave one who stood up for the whole of India for its freedom under British rule.

One of the main things that Gandhi did was that he rebelled a lot. He refused to follow any British rules. Doing this, showed the British that the Indians did not need them to go on in life. For example, he refused to buy British products. He refused to buy salt and buy British cloth. As a result of refusing to buy British products, he wove his own clothes and he produced his own salt from the ocean.

Gandhi also did things in a non-violent way. When the British were putting him under arrest for specific charges, he did not fight or argue about it. He basically just went with the flow. Also, when the British was beating him down for disobeying the British law, he just took the beatings and did not fight back. He believed that not fighting back with the British showed that they were stronger.