The Treaty of Versailles (ended WWI)

The treaty of Versailles affected Germany by making it have no army. They also said that this war was all Germany's fault. They said that Germany was behinds everything because Germany was the main aggressors in World war 1. It was signed five years after Arch duke Ferdinand was assassinated. It also said that they were really bad people and they were economically depressed because of this. The reason why they were so economically depressed was because the treaty required Germany to pay reparation money to all of the Entente side. They even lost land to prevent them from gaining back the land and to prevent another war. This treaty actually encouraged another war because of its maltreatment amongst the losing side. Even after all this punishment, they weren't even allowed to join the League of Nations because of the fact that they were very dangerous and could betray the League of Nations. For a while it stayed like this until a man named Hitler came to power. He would convince the people that fascism was the way to get back up from economic depression. The people agreed, and because this worked, they named him the ruler of Germany. I think that the treaty of Versailles led to Hitler becoming ruler because of the fact that it was so harsh on Germany, that they needed someone to take over and be tough about it. This is why Hitler looked like the man to over power the others and become the ultimate ruler. I think that historians who think that the treaty Versailles led to the rise of Hitler and fascism was correct because Germany was going through some hard times.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

The ottoman empire was a huge kingdom, until World War 1, this was when the Ottoman empire lost most of its land. This was due to a lose to in World war 1. One man named, Mustafa Kemal is brought a new form of government. He made the Ottoman people join up and create a new country, and it known as Turkey. He wanted Turkey to be a non-secular government. He did this by convincing them that they needed a new government and his non-secular ways should be changed to make a better government. Secular is a government based non-religion and not following what it says, instead rule the government according to facts. Such examples are religious schools, they are non-secular. Another non-secular thing is any kind of religion. Out of this, women were able to vote and have more rights. Also, because of this, there economy and social relationships with other nations increased as well.

Film Lesson: "Gandhi"

Gandhi helped the people of India by civil disobedience. He tried to unite the people to make one country, he united the people by making them not hit the British soldiers. their violence caused others to agree with Gandhi. He did the great salt march. This was when Gandhi was trying to get salt, rather the have to pay for it. He also used the violence of the police against themselves. he tried to use the fact that they were hitting harmless people, this showed the cruelty of the British. I think that they would have gotten their independence anyways, because Britain didn't have the money to do it. They were using majority of their money to repair Britain from what happened. World War two led to the destruction of some part of Britain. This made it harder to run a society.