Rape of Nanking (Nanjing)

The way that the Japanese had acted was gruesome and extremely horric for all to recall; whether the people were part of the rape and the invasions, or whether they are just learning about it. Over 300,000 people were killed and over 20,000 women were raped. As if the Rape of Nanjing wasn't enough, the Japanese government had completely denied it and stated that it had never occured. Despite the fact that there are still women alive today that were apart of this tragic time, the Japanese still had stuck by their word. It has been about 50 years and still the Japanese parliment has not apologized.

However, just recently the Prime Minister had apologized to all the women who were forced to serve in brothels. However, despite the poverty stricken Chinese women, non had applied to the Japanese fund. Though there were about 100 that had come out of the shadows. Many women are ashamed and it sickens them to recall this tragic time.

DBQ 17

European imperialism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries had resulted in transferring areas of Africa and Asia into a colonial empire that had really only benefited the British. This was the case for British colonialism in India. As imperialism began to spread all throughout Europe, the colonizer and the colony itself did not see eye to eye. They both the positive and negative effects of imperialism began to show. Both the colony and the colonizers had a different view on what was happening to the countries. The British, who were the colonizers, had felt that what they were doing to the colony was helping it. They felt that it was right to be able to control a country and alter it as they please. The British had introduced to the colony many new things such as education, means of transportation and most importantly, better and quicker ways of communication (Doc 1). They felt that it would be good to educate the colonies the way that they were educated, passing on their knowledge of how things should work. The British had begun to bring peace and order to the colonies and they had created a good strong government (Doc 2). The English introduced a westernized and more modern education to the people of India. Not only did they westernize their education with modern sciences and modern life, but they also made a frame for them by establishing laws and courts of justice (Doc 3). The English also ran their government for them because they felt that they would not be able to run their government properly. The British were taking over India in a countless amount of ways. They had helped reduce the famine by bringing in a new form of irrigation. They felt that the people of India were living in a cleaner healthier environment because of the British rule. They also did away with the infanticide and the slave trade (Doc 4&5).

England may have been helping India in many ways, but they worked their way around helping the people of India to make sure that they were going to be able to benefit from it all the most. The British had begun using India to help them import raw materials. India had become the “agricultural colony of industrial England.” This lead to poverty all across India and the standard of living decreased rapidly (Doc 6). Little by little the responsibilities of the people of India began to slowly be ripped away from them (Doc 7). They ran their government, not even giving them a representative. They began to establish unfair laws and they lived off of India as if they were living on their own homeland. They took that that India had gained from their imperialistic acts (Doc 2). This had proved that both the colony and the colonizers had a different view on imperialism. England felt that what they were doing to the country was for the better and the people of the colony were going to agree with that they were doing. On the other hand the people of India were suffering from poverty and a very low stand of living. They had no say in their government and were not able to live their life the way they wanted to.

Imperialism was both good and bad for the different countries from all around the world. People wanted to be left alone and live their life the way they had wanted to. Not by the laws of a foreign country. Though on the other hand, other countries had enjoyed benefiting from the natural resources of another foreign country!

The movie about Mohandis Gandhi is filled with many scenes that would catch a person’s eye. However, the two main scenes that had caught my eye are when he had began burning the passes because he felt that people should be able to walk around freely wherever and whenever they please without having to carry something that shows that they are “different”, when in reality everyone is the same. Gandhi was so serious about not wanting the passes that he had sat there not doing anything while the police beat him every time he had reached for another pass and put it in the fire.

Another scene that had caught my interest was when Gandhi was showing the British journalist around the Ashman. Gandhi walked around the Ashman showing the British man the men from all other different races and religion as if it wasn’t a problem. He was trying to make a point that everyone should be able to work and live together without one being higher than the other. He felt that the caste system and the unfair laws should be outlawed and everyone should be equal. I found it interesting how his wife still felt that she was above the others when she was asked to clean the bathrooms.

Civil disobedience is the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy that ischaracterized by the acting without violent techniques. These nonviolent techniques include: boycotting, picketing, and not paying taxes.

Passive resistant is when people oppose a government or a specific law that is passed by the use of non cooperation and other nonviolent methods such as economic boycotts and protest marches.

The Amritsar Massacre was named after the Jallianwala Baug garden in Amritsar. On April 13th, 1919, the British Indian army soldiers, who were under the command of Brigadier General Dyer, had began to open fire on a gathering of unarmed men, women and children. This had lasted for about 10 minutes and 1600 rounds were fired. The Official sources had placed the casuality rate at around 379. According to sources, the number exceeded over 1000, with more than 2000 wounded, and a Civil Surgeon had indicated that they were over 1800.

Marching band is awesome : )