NATO and the Warsaw Pact

THe reason why some european countries and north america made the NATO agreement was to help aid one another when they needed it. Also if one country falls under attack the other countries will help. Well one reason why North America made the NATO agreement was because they felt threaten by Russia. Even though they were allies in WW2 there was nothin dat tied them together once the war was over. In so then came the race 2 c which nation would be da best out of all of them. Who could hae created the more or most dangerous bomb. Who broke the sound barrier and who was the 1st ship or man in space. Of this race and not havin wat North America pact did they made their own and it was called the Warsaw pact.

Film Lesson Schindler's List

The one thing that i remember the most and that touch me was when they were liquidedating the Krakow ghetto and everyone was scaried. All of the Jews were cinfusedbut some wher smart enough 2 hide or try and run away and some did, others late got caught because the Germanys out smarted them and killed them later. But what I liked was when schindler and his wife were lookin down from there horses and saw what was going on and he spot a little gurl and she stood out more then anything else wit her blond curly hair n pink coat. He saw her walk through all of dat mayham and no one spottin her she went inside a building and hide under the bed. Later he saw at one camp that was closing down and they were burning the evidence and when a group of dead people were passin by and he saw the little girl with her pink coat and was gonna get throne in the fire

Film Lesson: The Right Stuff

The Americans were upset that the Russians were ahead of them in simething. They were allies in WW2 but like the war was over they were in compitition to become the best in the world. we thiguht that we were ahead because we broke the sound barrier and from wat we know the Russsians didn't. When we broke the sound barrier we kept it a secret for national security because we didn't want the Russians to Know. But later they send a man to space. Which made us very upset, so we build a space program fast to catch up to then. But late in a couples of years we send a man to the moon so we started to be ahead. The same thing with building more lighter n powerful bombs. We builded the hydrogen bomb later after the atomic bomb. Some scences on the movie that would help me remember what happened in the cold war was all of what Americans did 2 just be slighty ahead.

Night and Fog

The documentary was what you heared of what was happening during the labor camps. This was only 10 years later. But where the documentary was taken of, there were grass growing but no one was in site. The train tracks seemed to be never used. Their were some similiarites between Schinler''s List and this documentary. In all honestly I liked the Hollywood movie better than this documentary. To me the movie seemed more intresting then the documentary. It should how people really felt because their were actors 2 convey their emotions. You could have just imagen wat they went through. The director of the movie saw the documentary first then makin the movie beacuse there were some similar scences between them. For example, that the train going to Ashwitz went thru the middle of the building. Also the train that were taking the Jews to work factories or concentraintion camps. Also it seemed that he did his research on Schindler very well because wat ever were his defects or atrubutes the actor had. Im not sayin that the documentary ws bad only that it wasn't as intreseting as the movie.

The Treaty of Versailles

When the war ended the winning nations made a treaty called the treaty of Versailles, basically blaming Germany for the cause of the war and all of the damages done by the war Germany had to pay so Germany had to pay a large amounts of money to the winning nations. Some of the things that the Treaty restricted Germany to do was not have more than 100,000 men in their army, to have no use of heavy artillery, gas, tanks, submarines, having control of over seas land, Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France, other territory of Germany was taken away and they lost about 13% of land and about the same percentage of population. Also the most important was that Germany was to blame for the beginning of the war, even though it really wasn't Germany who started the war.
I believe that the war was unfair but like Germany had no other choice but to accept because they lost Britain, France, and United States took advantage of it. For example, Britain and Germany before the war were rivals with military power and Germany was quickly becoming powerful and Britain was becoming scaried because they were always the most powerful nation of Europe. Many historians believe what ended WW1 started WW2 because of the sums that Germany had to pay and the lose of the overseas terrioty they had no products to make money so they entered into a kind of depression. People had no jobs, family members where lost because of the war, the other nations took some of Germanys land and people, so they became bitter from it.
Later, came Aldolf Hilter which promise the people to get out of the problem that they had. But who would know that he was a manica who who have killed millions of people, mostly Jews. People were desprite to get out of the depression that came after the post war downfall. There was close to about half of the percentage of people without jobs. So they turned to Aldolf Hilter that promised to punsih the people that put them threw that misery, and stabalizh to Germany.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

The Turkish people hold one man in a pedestal for all the accomplishments he did for his country of Turkey, his name is Ataturk's. He wanted to modernized Turkey and bring it to the 21 century with dignity and class. When the rule of the Ottoman Empire started to decline there were new countries created for example Egypt and Turkey. What Ataturk wanted to do was to care for the people who were neglected by the Religious Empire. One of the ways that he wanted to modernized the lifestyle of the Turkish people is changing the way how the people dress, for example he made a law to abolish the fez. It is a type of hat that the Turkish wore. He wanted the people to dress more like the Europeans with pants and shirts with jackets and a different type of hat. Another way he helped the people of Turkey was letting them practice what ever faith they believe in, it was left to the person's own decision what to practice. It was not really important in politics what one's faith is. There was a majority of Muslam's with a miniorty of Christian's and Jew's.

Gandhi

There were many great leaders of independence, and Gandhi was one of them. He lead the independence of his home country of India from the control of Great Britain. Unlike some of the other independence leaders he used non violent methods. India was controlled by Great Britain during the scramble to conqure land around the world to have more power than other European nations. Gandhi wanted to stop the injust of Great Britians towards the Indians in India and South Africa. One example from the movie, that Great Britain did not treated Indians with the same right that they have, was when Gandhi was thrown litearly out of the train when he did not wanted to sit in 3rd class part of the train when he had a 1st class ticket. Just because he was an indian and they were not allowed to sit in 1st class or have a first class ticket.
Indians in South Africa have to had at all times a type of identification card and the british people who were there did not have to have one. This angered the Indians alot and what also made them mad was that they could not have power in higher places because only the British people can. Gandhi had a plan and wanted the whole Indian people to follow his plan. He wanted Britsh rule over India to weakened so he got everyone to boycott Britsh goods and if they dont buy anything they wouldnt have to pay taxes. So everyday people had to make food and make there own clothing. What they did was even travel 240 miles to the sea coast and get salt beacuse people need some. What helped India get its independence was the WW1 that was going on. Also was the non violent methods Gandhi used. But everytime the Britsh government always tried to find an excuse to send Gandhi to jail, what they didnt know was that it help to increase his popularity. Using non violence was great beacuse it angered a little the Britsh government beacuse they couldnt but them to jail beacuse they did not do anything wrong. It made the Britsh government seem like awful people the ones with no sympathy. And it made people around the world backup Gandhi for the independence of India.
The Indians were tried of the mistreatment of the British government so I believe there independence would have happened any ways but what I do believe was that it would have started and been a different way then when Gandhi was leading them but at the end they would have gotten there independence. They would have used violent methods and would loose hundereds even maybe thousands of people. If Gandhi did not rose up and lead them there would probably be someone else or a group of people that would have gottan control.