Thursday, February 25, 2010

Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles meant the ending of world war one. This treaty not only blamed the germans for starting the war it blamed them for all the damage that was caused, all the lives that were lost, all the money that was spent. They were ordered to pay back all the damage. In my opinion the Germans may have started the war and lost but the treaty of versailles was not fair. The germans lost more then half of their land and then had to pay a big "fine" to britan because of the war. This wasn't fair. The treaty of versailles soon led to World War II. 

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Mustafa Kemal (aka: Ataturk) modernized Turkey

Turkey was modernized because of  their ruler named Ataturk. Ataturk was a very wise muslim but he thought turkey was lacking modern culture. He reformed all of islam he banned their fiz and replaced it with caps or european hats. He made them ware a pants, jacket, formal shirt and tie. He did this because he wanted to help islam evolve on not stay in the prehistoric ages.