A traditional Indian wedding

An Indian wedding is very abusively with a lot of rituals and it´s pretty colourful. It is interesting and new for a German to be a guest at such a wedding. The preparation is already very different to a German wedding:

A normal fact is that the wedding is mostly arranged and the parents have to find the right partner for their child. A suitable partner has to be in the same caste like their family.

A horoscope says the day of the wedding and if the couple can marry in general. When the horoscope says that the couple can marry, they´ll be engaged. But is the divine side not agree, the wedding will not take place.

In some cases the two partners have never seen them before up to the day of wedding. I think it´s very strange because you´ll have to be with a man you´ve never seen before and maybe he is ugly or stinky or has a brutal character. *Help!*

Here are some rituals that the couple has to observe:

The groom must go with friends and family to the bride´s house and he´ll get a drink of honey and yoghurt. In the garden there stands a pavilion and the man has to sit in front of a kind of altar and next to him is a curtain and behind it the woman sits. They can´t see each other. A priest opens the curtain and the long phrases with love and "now you can kiss your wife" start.

It is interesting that the couple has to throw butter oil and rice as a prey to gods into a ritual fire and has to go with knotted clothes seven times around the fire.

These are bids of the wedlock:

- religious obedient

- getting a lot of sons

-"Kama"= Having fun while having sex :)

In the end the couple is sprinkled with holy water and then they have to sit a long time on their place where the other family members watch at them.

How they look:

While the wedding preparation the bride´s hands and feet get coloured with a kind of henna-creme. It looks very great in the end of every colouration of a bride. She also wears jewellery and a sari that has to be coloured with a reddish colour. Red is the colour of luck, the Indish say. It is very various from pink up to brown.

Sometimes the bride and her husband swap gerlands while the ceremony.

When you look at the bride you can see if her family is rich or not. A great wedding is expensive, we all know this. I also want to be a guest at such a great colorful celebration with the whole family! It must be pretty good!

Mahatma Gandhi

"My life is my message"

Gandhi's response to a journalist's question

about what his message to the world was

One of the most important people of India's history is Mahatma Gandhi. Mahandas Karamchand Gandhi (his real name) was born on 2nd October 1869 in Porbandar, a province of India. His father was a businessman and later a local politician and his mother a deeply religious woman (later, he said that she was nearly like a holy being for him). Because of his father, he belonged to the high Vaishya caste. His education was special: He had to fast to punish himself for his mistakes and he was told not to hurt living things and to tolerate other religions and sects. His family had lots of friends from other religions like the Jainism (living without violence in daily life) In 1883, as he was 12 or 13, he married the same old Kasturba, which was aranged by their parents because of the traditions of this time. By the way this marriage lasted until the dead of Kasturba in 1944, they had 4 children.As he was 18, Ghandi had the chance to go to Britain to study jurisprudence (law) and he leaped at this chance. There were a few problems because of his truth, the Hinduism, which was hard to follow in this very different world "Britain", but Gandhi went. He even accepted that he was banished from his caste, he was a "Parias" now. In 1891, as he was 22, he finished his study and went back to India where he tried the first times to be a lawyer, but he had a big problem: He was very shy and not self-confident, so he couldn't speak in front of the judge. Two years later he embraced an offer and went to South Africa to act for Indian immigrants. In this time, the imperialism and apartheid prevailed; Britain was a big power which dominated and ruled for example India and South Africa. The "whites" had all rights while the "others", the Indian, the South African (Zulus etc.) were repressed and treated like mud.

Gandhi went to South Africa without being informed about this conditions. He had different experiences which left their mark and formed his thinking: For example he was banished from a train, because he refused to go to the third class although he had a first class ticket; A "white" fellow passenger didn't want to travel with an Indian. Or an other experience: Gandhi was hit by a couchman, because he didn't want to leave his place for a European.

In this time, Gandhi began to lead protest marches and to develop his Satyagraha concept. "Satyagraha" is a term of him which means something like "stick to the truth". In life it was his kind to protest against repressing laws. He and his "followers" (he became a kind of leader) breaked the law and provoked a punishment or an arrest. In this way, they catched the attention of others, brought them to support them to and could stop the law often. Gandhi often get the abolition of a law, but the British colonial rule introduced a new repressing law all this times.

In 1915, after 20 years, Gandhi went back to India where he get the title "Mahatma" which means "big soul". There he fought for the Indian independence since 1920; India was ruled by Britain and wasn't a self-determined country; The Indians were poor and exploited. For example a farm: The farmer was a Britain always and the "little" workers who had to pay charges, hunger and poverty was wide-spread.

For his fight, Gandhi used his principle of Satyagraha and fought without violence. Millions went this way with him. Gandhi also lead the Indian Nation Congress (INC) which growed to a mass movement with Moslems and Hindus.

He organised demonstrations and protest actions like the 'salt marsh'. The problem was that Britain had introduced the salt monopol, so just Britains could obtain salt and trade with it. For the salt marsh, Gandhi and a lot of other people went 240 kilometres to the sea where they obtained salt and traded with it. So they reached that the Britains arrested a lot of Indians, also Gandhi.

(I saw a biography of Gandhi and somebody told that Gandhi asked for a glass of warm water after his arrest and as he get it, he put out a little bag with light powder and put something from it to the glass. As a high political Britain asked what it was, Gandhi said in a nice and friendly way: "This is salt which I obtained illegal from the Indian ocean.")

From 1942 to 1944 he demanded offical and public the immediatly Indian independence ("quit India!"). With this demand, he just spoke for all the Indians (If I don't remember wrong 300 millions, but all right 1/5 of the world population!). Then in 1947 Great Britain announced the Indian independence, Indian was free now! But the Britains announced also the division into the majority moslem Pakistan and the majority hinduism India. The consequence was that there were mass emigrations and fights between Moslems and Hindus: 500.000 people died in only a few weeks. With this trend one of Gandhis biggest dreams was destroyed: He dreamed of a united India with Moslems, Hindus and people of other religions which live in peace together. Gandhi thought that he had failed and began to fasten. So he reached that the fights became smaller and the Hindus and Moslems began to thought.

Then it was the 30th January 1948 when Gandhi went to a public garden to pray with lots of other people. There, a Hindu bowed down before Gandhi, get up and shot him three times.

I found out even more than I wrote down and I wrote down a lot. What I can short say is that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as Mahatma ('big soul') Gandhi, was an impressive and strong-willed person. He fought for the civil rights of Indians in South Africa and 'Parias' in the Hinduism society and in front of all, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi fought for the freedom of 300 million people.

Pictures (in the right order):

http://informations24x7.blogspot.com/2009/07/mahatma-gandhi-father-of-nation.html

(Gandhi as child)

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?235415

(Gandhi's wife and children)

http://www.paradisepath.com/gandhis_nonviolence_campaign.htm

(Gandhi and a man in South Africa)

http://franyo.de/front_content.php?idcat=43

(Gandhi and others during the salt march)

http://www.aref.de/kalenderblatt/2010/10_mahatma-gandhi_salzmarsch_1930.php

(Gandhi in front of Indians)

The Indian Armed Forces by Pascal Stieler

The Indian Armed Forces are the 3rd biggets armed forces in the world. They have got 1.325million soldiers, including 1.1million in the armee, 150.000 fighter jet pilots and 53.000 soldiers on see.

1.155 reservists and 1,293,300 paramilitary people belong to the Indian Armed Forces as well as the real soldiers.

The Indian Armed Forces got most of their equipment from Russia. For an example the T90R tank and the Backcha tank are produced in Russia.

This is a T90R tank. In Russia it's called T90MBT tank.

What most people don't know, is that this tank is much stronger than an Abrahams from USA.

Also they have got several ships like carriers or destroyers or even frigates from USA.

The fighter jets come from Russia like the SU-37 or the Mig-31. Also India has got fighter jets from USA and Europe but this jets are only for the carriers.

The first war from India was against Pakistan from 1947-1949. Because of the borders the Chinese-Indian war started 1962 and India lost it. 1965 the second India-Pakistan war started and 1999 the Kargilwar followed.

The two wars between India and Pakistan were complicated because both countries had atomic bombs. They had many atomic bombs.

The first test of India with a nuke was 1974.

The Indian Armed Forces aren't in any war this days. They haven't got a compulsary military service but they have a professional army. The army is suposed to protect the civillians.

The Indian Armed Forces will become more and more important in future I think because they are the 3rd biggest army in the world.

Indian Food

Indian Food

The Indian food is varied.Every region of inda has teir own food.So you cant describe the Indian foodculture.But what you can say about the Indian food is that the indian food verry spicy is.The Indian people like spicy sauces and they like to use spice.
The indian food is as big as the indian culture.In the North of India the people like to cook with milkproducts and they eat meat like lamp.In the east they have very sweet dessert.in the South of Inda they eat a lot of rice and in the west they eat a lot of vegetables.
examples for Indian food are:
Indian Mangocream (Aamphal)
You need for the mangocream
-2 Mangos
-150 g of Wippedcream
- 3 Spoons of Sugar and at least you need some nuts.

Other Indian meals are Coconut Cakes and Curry Soup

by Alina& Angelina

caste system by Lea Seik

General information:

The caste system is the classification of people in special groups in a country. Mainly in India, the caste system survives and still influence the life of the people.






1.India:

In India, there is the caste system since 3000 years.
It's still very typical to divide the people in different groups of humans. It is a hierarchie, an order of good and bad people, which has to show the people their position in the society.
The caste system orientate itself mostly at the religion of the people, their affiliation, it means who they marriage and what they work.
There are some rules for the caste system and the people have to follow them. For example, it isn't possible to marry someone or to eat with a person from another caste and especially for the Pariah, it's very sad because they can't change their life in a better way. The poor humans from the last caste can't go into the temple to pray there; it isn't allowed to touch persons from higher castes.

1.1.Structure:

Everyone in his caste has a special task:
In the first case (Brahmins), there are mostly the rich and respected persons like priests or teachers. They are supposed to teach and to lead the population.
The second case (Kshatriyas) consists of warriors, who have to safe the country and defend the people if it's necessary.
In the third case (Vaisyas), there are the businessmen and the famers who provide the nation with necessities.
The second last, but also very important case (Sudras) is represented by workers. Everyone of them help the generality with their jobs, which support the survival of the country.
And in the last, but not worth mentioning case for the Indians (Pariah) are the poor people, the beggars and the workers from the street, who have to do dirty jobs like cleaning the street

1.2.Religion:

For the Indians, it is very important to believe in a God. Hinduism is the main religion. (You get more informations in Sarahs article)

1.3.Karma:

The Hindus think, that they will be reborn after their first life. But for that, it's very important, how much karma they have collected in their life and it decides their life after the death. The Karma is like collecting points of good and bad acts in the life of the Hindus. If you have enough good karma, you'll have a better life than before, maybe also in a higher caste. Persons with more bad karma are going to be plantes or animals.
Every person wants to reach the "Nirvana", a mental and emotional state which is similar to the paradise. But only with enough good karma, it is possible to stop the rebirth and go to the “Nirvana“.



2. Problem:

The caste system is a big problem in India. There are still people, who live like nomads in tribes, spread over the country. There are as many poor people as nowhere else. The “Untouchables“ are a big mortgage for India, although it became a democratic and modern country in the last decade. Since the declaration of independece in 1947, India had no chance of coming out of their crise. The differences between the religions, the conflicts of interests and the caste system lead India more and more into trouble.
In the history of this country, there were some very important characters, who lead India into a democratic and independent state with a lot of industrial power. For example Mahatma Gandhi, who recognized the problem of the caste system and tried to abolish this system. He wanted to introduce a new political order, which gave India the independence and the freedom back but couldn't abolish the casten system completly.

Nowadays, the regime in India provide some apprenticeships and jobs to the people from the last caste, from which the most on the street live. Position at the universities and in the parliaments gave these people a little bit hope back.



3.Conclusion:

The caste system was just a political decision of deporting the poors out of their nationality and they tried to built a good working society, without any problems and victims, who only pollute the nation and the country.
I hope, India will recognize, that this system doesn't work. They have to understand, that it isn't allowed and legitimate to distinguish between people. In the constitution of Germany, there is one important sentence, which should apply over the world:
“The dignity of men is unimpeachable. “



This interview gives you a good and short overview about the general information, the history and the latest situation:

Bollywood

The Bollywood-movies are very entertaining with songs and dance.
In the 80th century the movies were shown only with classical dance, but in the 90th century there was developed a more modern dance style. They mixed the music (elements) out from the classically Indian dance with the elements from Jazz-dance, Modem Dance and Hip Hop. So it began a new dance style of the Bollywood movies.

The dance scenes in the movies are in each movie different, because it depends on the action of the film and on the time and the place, where they played.

Also important are the famous “Love dance-scenes”, where the love pair is in the mountains, at the beach, in the snow and at other romantic places to show their love.

For about two years the Bollywood fever had grasped the western world, too.
Bollywood movies were already shown on Arte and Vox (but in Hindi language with subtitle)
And now they show the Bollywood Hit-moviess on RTL 2 in German language.
Here is a movie picture of the movie called “sometimes Happy, sometimes sad”. It was a Hit and it was the first Bollywood movie, which was shown on RTL 2 on 19th November, 2004.

In every Bollywood Hit-movie is the same actor. This is the actor Sharukh Khan. He is the Bollywood King today. Mostly when he is signed on Films the directors would know, that he would do well. This is the magic of the King. Sharukhs first came into the limelight as a soldier. This took the Indian television by storm. Don't think that Sharukh Khan is the only Best actor in Bollywood. There are some other good actors too. For example Salman Khan, John Abraham and Hrithik Roshan.

Here is a video of a bollywood dance :

Made by Elena and Madelaine :)

ISLAM IN INDIA

Islam is after the Hinduism the second largest religious direction in India.In India today live about 110 – 120 million muslims. Important centres of the Muslims are Delhi, Agra and Lucknow.To of the development of India the Moslems have contributed mostly. If they had not been India would not be like one it today knows.On the world there are over 1,2 billion muslims.The history of the indian muslims begone with the arabien captue.Mohammed Ali Jinnah was chosen in 1916 the president of the Moslem's league in British controlled India.During the negotiations with the Britons about the independence of India he put through in 1947 the division of the Indian subcontinent in India predominantly inhabited by Hindus and the Moslem state Pakistan in the Indus valley and the way mouth. In the course of the division left more than 4 million Muslims today's India, while approx. 7 million Hindus and Sikh left the state area of Pakistan. One supposes that with acts of violence and by the strain during the escape up to 750,000 people lost her life. More than 600 years Muslim dynasties governed India, first as a ruler of the sultanate of Delhi, later than emperor of the Mogul empire. At the beginning of the British supremacy the last Mogul emperor Bahadur Schah II was edged out. He was set down formally after the Indian uprising in 1857/58, before the British queen Viktoria was proclaimed in 1877 also to the empress of India. While the temporarily Muslim rule existed beside Hindus empires, it united in the times of her biggest expansion almost the whole subcontinent. Particularly the reign of the Mogul emperors Akbar and Aurangzeb is looked as a climax. Above all under Akbar the arts also reached a period of bloom for which, among the rest, the known miniature painting stands. Famous architecture monuments like the Taj Mahal in Agra, a tomb for a Mogul princess, are marked Islamic.

Jana & Vanessa

Tata Nano - Cheapest car of the world

The cheapest car of the world is the Tata Nano, produced by Tata Motors in India. It has 4 seats and weights 600 to 635 kilograms. It is produced since 2009 and costs 100,000 Indian Rupees, ~ 1,440 euros. Before it got the name Tata Nano, it was famous as the "One Lakh Car" (One Thousand Car). The engine of the Tata Nano generated 26 kilowatts and 35 horsepower, the version with diesel-engine has 20 kilowatts and 28 horsepower. A shifting system with four gears and a fuel consumption of 4,24 litres per 100 kilometres is significant for the Tata Nano. The trunk of the car contains 30 litres, this is enough for a briefcase. Many parts - specially parts of the motor - are from German manufactors, like Bosch or BASF. The car conforms the Indian safety rules, which are similar to the European. After an early stage of many sales, practically nobody buys this car.



Why is the Tata Nano so cheap?
Many different methods are cause for the low price of 1,440 euros. There is no power steering, no air conditioner, no car radio, no electric window regulators. Some safety technologies like airbags or ABS are missing. The most parts of the car are based of plastic, instead of metal. To keep the price low, the producer glue the most parts of the car. Last reason for the low price is the manufacturing country India.
© Kilian & Maurizio

KALKUTTA

Kalkutta is the Capital of the West Bengal district in India and there live 5.0 milion people in the center of the city and so Kalkutta is the 4th biggest city in India. In the whole region live 15.2 milion people and so Kalkutta is the 3rd populous city in India.
In 1773 Kalkutt was the capital of India because they had become the trade monopoly of India, for example they traded opium to china. In 1869 Mumbai becomes more popular and the opium trade was over so Kalkutta weakened and they got their glorious end when the capitl of India was changed to Delhi.
Since 1710 the population increased continuously from 12.000 to 5.021.458 and a third of these people live the slums of Kalkutta. The wealthy people of Kalkutta live in the well developed regions of the city where they are more modern and liveable houses. A lot of people come from other lands to India which then results in a continous population increase of Kalkutta.

The Victoria Memorial is the pride of Kalkutta because it was finished in the year 1921 for the queen Victoria. Victoria died in the year 1901 and they divote it to her. The whole building is build with Marmor and it was desinged by Sir William Emerson.


Made by Robin

Famous Places of India

1. One of the world's best known tombs is the Taj Mahal in Agra. Built for the remains of Mumaz Mahal, the wife of Shah Jahan, 20.000 workers were employed to construct the building and the garden around. All rooms and halls are pompously ornated, diamonds and other material had been brought from countries in Asia. Today it's mainly a tourist attraction, yearly 2-4 millions visitors, but the religious background of the Islam still has it's influence, leading to safety arrangements after bomb threatings. According to a cronicler, the rise of the building took place right after the death of the mogul and was finished after 12 years in 1644. The UNESCO classified it as a World Cultural Heritage. Problems came with air pollution, yellow walls in the evening sun show how fast the white colour is affected by the new boom of cars and the following pollution in India.

2. The Ajanta Caves are old cave temples in a valley, mural paintings show Buddha and the history of the place lead to the classification World Cultural Heritage. From the second century to the fifth century, buddhists habited in the valley and used the stone walls to build caves with a seize of 30 metres wideness and a depth until 15 metres. After animosities against the buddhists, that caused them to leave the place, the temples, which had each taken a building time of 30 years, were forgotten. When an english major hunted tigers he accidentally found them, an exposure took place soon. Cultural importance and the beauty of the place are obvious, ornated, decorated and filled with statues of warriors it's a rich source to archaeologists.

3. In the early 20th century, a starvation let the population of India endure, so the local Maharaja wanted to build a palace to give his people work, the Umaid Bhawan Palace. 14 years 3.ooo employers used sandstone, 12.100.000 Indian rupees were donated by the maharaja. The palace is 14.000 square metres large. When the place was in bad shape and no money was there to renovate it, a separation in 3 parts was ordered. A museum, a hotel and the living area. It's the world's biggest building owned by a private person.


by Lukas and Jonathan

Hinduism

The Hinduism has it's beginning in India, the people of the religion are called Hindus.
82 % of the indian inhabitants are members of hinduism.
Modern Hindus prefer Sanatana dharma as an explaination for their religion, which means something like everlasting life.
Hinduism is a connection between lots and lots of religious communities, they're choosing their god out of about 330 Mio. different gods. The three "biggest" gods are Brahma, Shiva & Vishnu, other gods are mostly seen as children or servants of them.
There's no "real" god or person you look up to, like buddha or jesus. But there're some indentities with other religions, like the way they think about life, dead or redemption.
In their opinion people have karma, there's also something like a cycle of rebirth.
Women have nearly the same rights like men, if it's about religious things, they get more respect than in other cultures. The most important duites of women are giving birth to lots of children. They want to have boys, because girls have to bring the presents to their marriages, so it could be pretty expensive. The husband has the right to make deicions.
Milk products are and were really important for Hindus, a living cow was worth more than a dead, so after a while the sainted cows became essential. The way of having meal is mostly vegetarian.
The caste system is a problem for indian Hindus, even today.



written by Sarah & Sophie

INDIA

This week our topic will be India...

-Biography-

The history of “Billy Talent” can be pursued till the High School days of the four members. At that time they are still in other bands, but the four members met at a tape competition. The chemistry between them is so well, that they still decide in the same evening to go from now on together their way. Everybody gets out of his real band and tries to search an explosion in the rock with the new like-minded people.

Under the name Pezz singer Benjamin Kowalewicz, guitarist and songwriter Ian D'Sa, bassist Jon Gallant and drummer Aaron Solowoniuk play in her home town Streetsville, Ontario some gigs.

In 1998 the four Canadians take up an album called "Watoosh". Although 2000 copies are fast sold out, in the meantime, it is not exactly a musical wonderwork of which they are reminded with pleasure.

Because another punk group from the USA had also chosen the name "Pezz" and they wanted to avoid discrepancies, the band renamed itself as "Billy Talent". The name comes from the figure "Billy Talent" from the film "Hard Core logo".

However, not only the name had changed, from now on, also musically, quite an own style was developed - the music is arranged mostly somewhere between screamo, punk and alternative, “Billy Talent” call themselves, nevertheless, purely and simply rock band.

"For years we’ve tried in vain to find our own sound. Everything fitted together only to a whole when we’ve accepted ourselves, finally, simply in such a way as we are anyway. If you find your voice, everything follows completely by itself", explained Benjamin.

"When we have started, it was a matter rather of placing on our uniqueness, as that we copied other bands", says Ian. And exactly this make “Billy Talent” after their change. Nothing new, but the old songs thus well reworks that it wakes up enough interest in the biggest radio-rock show of Toronto. Their producer comes out as a big fan and gets a deal for the boys when she changes to “Warner Records”.

In 2001 “Billy Talent” publish their first EP "Try Honesty" and travel extensively through North America, among other things as a Support for Sparta and golden finger.

With her catchy punk rock melodies they get prices immediately by the dozen and fill concert halls in the whole world. After the big success of the debut "Billy Talent" they concern the thing a little more quietly: "We have taken for the moment a time out, and have remained with our friends, families and many people whom you needs thus around yourself," says singer Ben.

After the break, in spring 2005 they recorded the song "Red flag" and with that song they decided to record a second album.

With the long-desired second album with the simple title II (Roman numeral for 2) which has appeared on the 23rd of June, 2006 created Billy Talent also in Germany the breakthrough: the album landed directly on place 1 of the German album charts!

In autumn, 2008 "Billy Talent" report back with a download single and announce the works on the new album.

The long-desired third album of four Canadians appears on the 5th of July, 2009 and even in three different versions: the normal album version, a version with three bonus tracks as well as a deluxe edition with all guitar chords as a poster, a Play along-CD and a sweat tape. An extensive tour followed through Germany and Europe.

↑ Billy Talent - Surrender

A legendary painter in Canada

Tom Thomson is famous for his great paintings that he drew but he died for unexplained reasons. His real name is Thomas John Thomson and he grew up in Leith and his birthday was the 5th August 1877. Thomson was an influenial artist for a group of painters called the Group of Seven and as I saw his pictures in the internet I knew he was a real genius.

Thomsons life and his death:

First he worked at an iron foundry of his father´s friend but he was fired when his teacher wasn´t really happy about his tardiness. At the age of 22 he wanted to start a carrier as a soldier but he wasn´t in the right medical trim. 1905 and 1906 he studied and after that Thomson joined an artistic design firm in Toronto, where the Group of Seven also worked. Some time later Thomson found his passion to paint often when he travelled around the area of Canada and got inspired while looking at trees and lakes like the Canoe Lake. In that time his carrier rose and he had a studio and worked with other painters. Additionally he worked as a fire fighter, a rager and a guide in Algonquin Park so I think Thomson wanted to present the powerul nature in his works.

On July 8, 1917 Thomson disappeared while having a trip to Canoe Lake. It was said that he was drowned but other people say that he was murdered by a rival of him because there would be fishing line around his leg and his head was hurt.

I think it´s a very tragical story of a great painter and if he didn´t die, he would paint more wonderful paintings. His workes inspire me and they are so colourful and I would put a painting on my sleeping room wall so I would always get a big sime when I wake up.

Pictures: http://particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/Graphics/Canada/Thomson.gif

http://www.blogto.com/upload/2008/05/20080527-TomThomson.jpg

http://www.andrewhamilton.ca/tomthomsonproject/wp-content/andrew%20hamilton%20tom%20thomson2.JPG

World War I+II in Canada by Lea Seik

General information:

The aim of Canada in World War I and II was to became an independent country in the world. In the years before, Great Britian colonized Canada and till the begining of World War I, the Canadians were under the political influence and command of Great Britian.
In these wars, they used the opportunity of proving their national power. But at first, they joined into the war by support Great Britian with weapons and other military stuff, because they were a partner of the Commenwealth.



World War I:

Under the command of the prime mininster Robert L. Borden (1911-1920), Canada helped the allied forces in World War I.
Nearly 8 million people participated in the war and ca. 60,000 humans died of them. All these military humans became soldiers by their own choice. In July 1917, the Canadian regime intrduced the compulsory military service (Wehrpflicht).
The former aim was the independent of Great-Britian, so they supported Great-Britian with weapons.
Some very terrible battles were for example the fight in Ypern, a coast in Belgium, the fight at the 'Somme', a river in France, which was the most terrible battle in World War I and the combat in 'Passchendaele',it's near Ypern. The battle of 'Vimy' was the most glorious fight for the Canadians in World War I, because the Canadian troops conquered a fortress in Germany.
In the meantime, the women established the women's suffrage.

(Nellie McClung, a women's libber and a freedom fighter)
















In 1918, 40 % of the industrial production in Canada were weapons and munitions, which were exported to Great-Britian and the other Western powers.
When the war finished, Canada was noticed in the Versailler treaty as an independent country.















(Canadian soldiers during the retreat)



World War II:

In 1921, William L. MackKenzie became the new prime mininster and made a good and sovereign politic. That convinced Great-Britian and Canada became an independent country, although Great-Britian controled some of their politic.
At first, MackKenzie didn't believe, that Germany start a new fight, but after the western powers came in conflict with the 'Third Reich', he declared war on Germany on the 10th September 1939. That was the beginning of many battles in Italy, Hong Kong and North France, which was occupied by the german soldiers at that time. Many Canadians did an apprenticeship by the Canadian Air Force and the Royal Canadian Navy.
But after Canada became nearly a free, liberal country, a lot of problems were born, which didn't exist, when Great-Britian influenced the country. The bad Export, the strained relations and crises between the people, the tribes and the sections of the population were very distinctive in this time.
Nevertheless, Canada became more and more important when it joined into the UNO and helped with the foundation of the NATO.
A lot of new reforms came into force, for example the new insurances for the population.
After the end of the war, Canada became very strong in the economy and modernized their country by using their raw materials and their mineral ressources like the oil and the wind power. Because of the high birth- and the good immigrate rate.
Nearly 1,160,000 humans enagaged in the war and ca. 44,000 person died.
Toward the end of World War II, almost every soldier got war-weary. That was a signal for the Canadian regime of introduce compulsory military service again, which was repeled in the years before.


















(propaganda poster)



Time after World War I+II:

At the end of the battle, the tropps liberated a lot of areas in Norway and the Dutch territory around the Rhine and the Lek. After everything finished, the Canadian soldiers withdrawed from Norway and rebuilt their own country.