Mustafa Kemal and the Modernization of Turkey

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is a Turkish Muslim. He was mostly involved in religion and politics. Mustafa Kemal wanted to modernized the religion, Islam in Turkey. Mustafa didn't want to wear the traditional stuff that Muslims wore in the Middle East. He believed that religion is religion, you don't have to wear a specific thing. He felt that since they're in Europe, they wanted themselves to blend in the European style. Like he wanted them to wear such things, like jackets, hats, shoes, pants, and etc. that Europeans wore at that time, since Turkey is part of Europe.
He wanted the Turkish people to be considered civilized among their European neighbors. His main focus was on how the people dressed. He also got rid of the Islamic calendar and replaced it with the western calendar. He thought that if maybe he could change the way they dressed then maybe he can change the way they think and make them more liberal and open minded.

Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind:

Gandhi was considered the father of india. Gandhi was one of the most influential people in india. He helped india overcome its suppressors,England. He did this by organizing a bunch of peaceful protests and boycotting a lot of british products and goods. He believed that non-violence would help him and it did.

Gandhi thought that if maybe he would not fight then the enemy would look bad and everyone would be on his side. I believe that if gandhi did not exist, india would still be able to gain its independence, but it would have taken them some time. India's independence would have still been achieved but not only would it have taken longer but it would have also been much, much longer. India wanted its independence because they were being oppressed and british goods were being forced onto to them.

The Russian Revolution

Causes of WW1

The world at War... and everyone else.

World War 1 was one of the most deadliest wars in history. The war was said to have began when the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, but the truth is that there were many other reasons. One of these being nationalism. Nationalism was a big cause of the war. People would fight over land and would hate each other because of their love for their country. Militarism also contributed because all the countries would build their military and make other countries suspicious.

Opium wars

The british would only trade gold and silver for tea from china. China didn't need anything besides the gold that Britain had but Britain didn't want to trade gold for tea. so instead britain decided to trade opium. Britain thought if maybe they could get china addicted to opium then they could trade that for tea. The chinese tried to fight off the drugs. Sadly they couldn't and the drug was forced upon them. the british won because of their superior navy and weapons.

"mountains of the moon"

When the europeans first entered africa they expected it to be all easy. Little did they know that what lied ahead of them was much tougher. They faced many hardships and were almost killed. After many tries they finally found the lake and named it lake victoria. Can you believe that a lake right in the middle of africa was named after a british queen? Well soon after , the invention of the machine gun, steamboat, and the discovery of malaria's cure europe was finally able to conquer europe.

Imperialism Project

We did the imperialism project because it was suppose to show us a broader view of imperialism and its effects. The project showed us how much land these countries had and how many natural resources were gained. I also learned about the war that were fought in order to gain and control these lands.