Chapter 22 Documents
22.1 talks about Mustafa Kemal Ataturk discusses and defends his reasons for changing some of the traditional aspects practiced in Islam. One of the main things he abolished was that of the caliphate, by which Ottoman rulers became the leader of the Islamic world. This speech occurred in 1927, when modernization was still occurring at a rapid rate for many countries. During this time, many Islamic countries had gained their own independence as rightful states. By modernizing Islam, Ataturk was not demolishing the religion entirely or the root of what made it its religion, instead he simply found the aspects of it that would conflict with progressing in the world and did away with them. In the image 22.2, Vietnam displays their pride and independence. Vietnam had been struggling with American interference and they were tired of it. As big as an underdog that Vietnam was, they stunned American military forces and reversed the power in their country.Communists supporters wanted to reunify their country and drive out the American forces, which consisted of half a million troops, and that is what they did. Visual 22.4 is the Palestinian Nation in the making. The poster shows a large man with a pickax in his arms maybe to portray that these lands belong to the Palestinians and they put the effort to survive off these lands and do not deserve to have them confiscated by Israelis. In this poster are three doves. These doves could symbolize peace and show how the land was theirs and should not be taken.