Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WW I)

The Treaty of Versailles was a treaty because Germany lost the war and France wrote the treaty. If they did not agree with France they would declare war on Germany. It basically blamed the whole war on Germany and made them pay for all the damages for the war. Germany had to pay France, England and America. the funny thing is that Germany isn't the blame for the war it was Austria hungry because they killed France Frediand.

The main problem for Germany was that they had to pay compensation for the war but they did not have a lot of money to pay for the war because they used most of there money for the war. They went into a depression that messed up there economy for a couple of years. Until Adolf Hitler came into the picture he helped little by little the economy building bridges, roads and buildings. The people didn't know that he was crazy and was going to try to wipe out the whole Jewish population in the world. So you can say that because of the treaty it started World War II

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was the founder of the Turkish people and the first President, he stood as a towering figure of the 20Th Century. He was one of the great leaders of history, few have achieved so inspiration to the world at large. In the short period, he changed the life of a nations decisively, and given such profound. Ataturk means father of the Turks so he was the founder in a way and he was like the Gandhi of Turkey. He used civil disobedience and passive resistant to change the country to make it more like European countries. He decided to make the Fez illegal because he wanted turkey to be like Europe So the Turkish people had to wear trousers, drees shirt, ties and rimmed hat.

He made the Turkey republic in 1923 which he was the ruler of. He even had a language reform which was one of the hardest reforms people believe because they had to learn a whole new language. He changed Arabic writing and language in Latin which was the language of Europe. He asked experts about long would it take to reform the language they said five years and he said yes but in five months.