Film Lesson: Night and Fog

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WW I)

The Treaty of Versailles was the document that ended World War One on June 28, 1919. Overall in this document it says that Germany was the blame to this war; so they have to pay for the damages to the war. Umm in my opinion its like half fair and half not. The fair part is that Germany did start the war and lost so they do have to face concenquences. The unfair part is that they have to pay for everything that was done between the war, which leaves them with nothing at the end. Some historians say that the Treaty of Versailles led to the rise of Fascism and Adolph Hitler. I do believe this statement because the people of Germany were down and need someone to bring them back up and Adolph Hitler convinced them, that he will.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal was the leader of Turkey after the Muslim empire have fell due to loss in the war. Even though the Muslim empire have been separate they still stuck to their rules and regulations. The separated countries have followed religious rules. Mustafa Kemal wanted to changed that. He wanted to get out of the stone age and be in with the new age. He wanted to be how the European people were, with there clothes, style and how they act. He believe that the style people are wearing before was not modern, so certain clothing was illegal to wear like a veil.

Secular- not pertaining to or connected with religion.

Film Lession :Gandhi

From the movie "Gandi" Gandi showed many ways to help his people get independence from Great Britian. For one, Gandi told the people to make their own clothing; he told them that he spin his own clothes everyday before he does anything. Next he said to never fight back with the Police, "violence with violence will not solve anything". If they start with you and you don't fight back then it would show who the bad people are. Gandi took a large group of people to march to the Ocean and get Salt Water. Thus when they evaporate the water they get salt to use. They did this to not to buy anything the British made or sold. With hard work and the help of Gandhi; India have recieve Indepencence from Great Britian.

I believe that India waited a certain time to fight away from Great Britian, because during that certain time (1947) Great Britian was in an economic breakdown.

The Russian Revolution

It all started when the Russians went into WWI. They were not prepared for this war; over four million men have died in the first year of the war against the germans. later on February 1917, Czar Nicholas had dethrone himself because he could not know what to do anymore. The government could get there selves out of the war.Workers and peasants revolted against the landlords and factory owners. Peasants expropriated (or took over) land and factories were closed when workers refused to work.  People in the city started to starve and the economy was getting destroyed. The Bolsheviks used this to there advantages and defeat Russia.  In the end Russia have turned their government into communism and made the peasants work in the farms and the workers gained control of the factory. This brought peace into Russia.  

Causes of WW1

There were many causes to WWI. Some were nationalism, militarism , and the assiantion of Franz Ferdinand "which started the war". Nationalism is a term used to describe one's deep pride for a country. The strong feelings of Nationalism turned Frenchmen againist Germans and Russians againist Austrians. Militarism is when your prepping for you nation army. In the European countries army's were getting ready with guns, ammo, and aid to go to war. The thing that triggered the war to start was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

In Asia Britian had a ton of Opium. With that opium they traded with the chinese and the chinese got really additcted to it. Too much opium can harm the body so the government closed the ports for the Britsh from docking. This led to the Opium War. In the end of this war china was forced to open their ports for the Britsh to dock their boats for trading with the chinese again because they lost the war against them.