The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution is many different revolutions that occured in Russiain the year of 1917 and so on. This is what made the Soviet Union. In the first Revolutin the Czar ( Nicholas 2 ) was deposed and replaced by a provisional governement in March of 1917. In October of that same year the Provisional government got over runned by the Bolshevik a Communist party. The goal of this war was to get "Peace, Land, and Bread". People wanted Peace so no more fighting, Land to grow crops because there crop fields were messed up and Bread to eat because there were many food shortages the year before. Communism is a country that everything is equal. Everybody gets the same money and the government runs everything going on. The leader of the Bolshevik party was Vladimir lenin he was very influenced by karl Marx's teachings. With the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk a big war came forth with the Red Army ( Bolshevik ) and the White Army ( Aniti- Bolshevik ) which at the end the Bolshevik being victorious on top of the white army. But Lenin died 1924 and was replaced by a man of evil a man by the name of Joseph Stalin.

Stalin ruled Russia till he died in 1954, but people feared him. Stalin made factories and forced peasants to work in them. Stalin took full dictatorship. Another thing that Stalin wanted to do was make Russia a full Totalitarin place.

Cause Of WWI

One of the many causes of World War 1 is that a Serbian man assassinated Franz Ferdinand. Which gave Austria-Hungry a reason to set war against Serbia. This was one main reason that World War 1 was started. Now because countries had to take sides that is what split Italy, Russia, Austria-Hungry, Germany etc. This made the war bigger and made many people die. Nationalism played a huge role in this because everybody loved their country very much and they defended their country no matter what. So this caused for the people to go fight for their countries and it set forth a War like no other.

Alliances are also what caused a bit of the war. The Three Emperors league were a alliance of Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungry. The second alliance is of Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungry in exchange for protection in case a war broke out that Italy and France would be protected.

Opium Wars. Imperialism In China

The Opium wars were wars that made a change in China. China was at its peek it had a large amount of opium that other countries and people want. The French and the British were some of the people that wanted so of the opium and they tried to trade but at the same time the Chinese didnt want to trade so the French and the British couldn't do nothing about it. They thought the best way to get it is to win it over the Chinese so they set out the Opium war to label were they stand. The French and The British were the ones to defeat China and opened up new ports of trading for the people to receive goods from the Chinese people. Opium trade blew up for the next century gave great domination for the countries to get it. The Christians were able to spread the religion to others to give god to those of China. Before they were not permitted to. This all happened in 1856.

Film Lesson: Mountains Of The Moon

Exploring Europe these explorers ( Richard Burton , John Speek ) thought that it wouldnt be hard. It was something they shouldnt have doubted. It was hard for the fact that they had to walk in that hot weather. They had to fight agaisnt tribes that lived around there and they would loose because lots of there men would die because of maleria, bad water, insect poisan, or they would run away before even getting to there destination point. The purpose it is wierd that Lake Victoria is named after the british Queen is because it is a place of pure african american people. But they named it a white persons name. That is completly unormal.

The main source and the thing that the white people had over the Africans were that they had guns and much more developed mind state. Therefore it mad them have more power then the rest. Once the machine guns were invented it was like a handfull of people were able to conquer and take over Africa very easily.

Imperialism project

We did the imperialism project because it was the more detailed way to show the takeover of different colonies. It showed how England and France , Spain, Germany, Italy colonies etc took over many countries. I learned that many countries were owned by one major Country like how Spain owned most of South America. France owned most of Africa. I learned alot by just doing this project. Alot of this was based on trades. Spain and Italy and Gerymany etc wanted spices and gold / silver.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx the creator of Communism. People tend to ask what is Communisn. It is a society of which everyone shares the wealth. There werent many choices to pick off of so people would have the samething instead of having others hate and want what they have. For example there would be one jacket in a store and if anyone wanted that a jacket it would be the same , the one that the factory manufactored. Marx wanted the workers to control the government but the governemnt was to strict. People in a Communist country were not able to print out or say bad things about the government. Communism is a study of relationship between a economic activity and a social life along side a political way of thinking.


Marx thought the upper class were the bad guys and the lower class were the good guys. Said to be that the richer get richer and the poorer get poorer. He basically thought that the Communist way is and should be the way of life. One of the main ideas is class strugles. Throughtout the world its always been a class strugle. Peasants lower then the nobles, and workers lower then the owners. Marx way of thinking was why not make it all equal so that everybody gets a fair shair and a proper paycheck etc.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx wasnt a fan of the Industrial Revolution. He was upset about the abuse and unsaftyness that the work and factories put upon our people. Marx was a man who thought more of his everyday average people then the ones who were already on top. He wanted workers to control the factories instead of the landowners. His thoughts and analyzations were put out by him and he wanted the people to join a worldwide Revolution. These thoughts were called Communism.

Communism was a new way of thinking. People were to get the exact pay so everything was equal. But people soon seen that these ways were not functioning. Karl Marx disliked the Industrial Revolution but then again was very impressed of the outcome. The outcome setting forth capatalism.