The Russian Revolution

The cause of the russian revolution was the dislike of a man called Czar Nicholas 11. They didn't like how he treated the army and go to war with limited about of weapons and food. There was a temporary army but in place from march to november 1917. They were suppose to change everything in which they didn't. Bolsheviks who was a communists defeated the democratic government lead by lenin. Lenin promised peace and land. Bolsheviks attacted the russian capital on November 6. Russia became a communist country

Causes of WW I

World war one was a big war. Their was many causes to this war like militarism,nationalism and the main one was the assignation of Archducke Franz Ferninand. After this two groups were formed called the Triple Enlente and the Triple Alliance. The Triple Entente included France, Russia and england. The Triple Alliance included german, italy and austria-hungary.

Nationalism is the pride of a country. Nationalism can be good or bad. Nationalism turned frenchman against germans,russia and austria.

Militarism is preparing your nations army. You are trying t make your army the best and depend on them so you spend alot of money on weapons.

Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The opium war was set off when Britain attempted to trade tea with china. The western europeans were trying to explore places and find new natural resources. China didn't want to trade with anybody. Britain wanted to trade with them so they gave them a drug called opium. Now that the chinese were on drugs they were willing to trade with britain for there opium. Now they were trading opium and tea. Later on china didn't like what they did so it lead to the opium war. Britain was the winner in this war.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

In the move "Mountains of the Moon" the two main characters were Richard Burton and John Speek. These two guys had many hardships to go threw. They had so face many different african tribes,Several Days of Bad Hyigene, Little Amount of Water, food problems, problems with slaves like stealing things from them,fighting and getting sick. Many of there slaves got sick and died. One of the problems they had was molavia. This was there main problem. There goal was to find the nile river and map africa. They ended up calling it lake victoria, which was the queen of england and up till today it has the same name. It is strane beacuse the population around it has african people with a river after a women from england. After all of this england came back to africa to conquer it with machine guns and this was porven to be very easy beacause the english people had machine guns while the africans had arrows and pipes.

Imperialism Project

In class all students had to do a prject on imperialism. This project was surppose to teach us about imperlism ang what happened during that time. I learned about what Belgium, italy, portugal, france, spanish, germany, and britan controlled during this time. Also during this time there were many things traded like tabbaco, cotton, silver, gold, sugar, slaves, coal, ivory, diamond, rubber, cannas, opium and tea. We had to show all of this in the map that the teacher gave us.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Max didn't like the idea of the industrial revolution. He thought everyone should be treated equaly so he developed his own idea,which was called Communism. He thought everyone should get the same amount of money no matter what you did. For example it didnt matter if u worked in a factory or in a bank you would get paid the same amount of money. He also said that the government should own everything including a person house or business. Marx thought that the bussiness owners from the industrial revolution and the good guys were the workers.

Karl Marx and the Indutrial Revolution

Karl Marx changed russian history forever. He wanted to sovle what was happening in europe and the unsafe factories. He urged the workers of the world to unite in a worldwide revolution. Karl Marx hated the indutrial revolution beacuse of the way things worked. He didnt like what the owners did by not paying the workers enough and not treating them good. From this he made his own idea name communism becuse he thought that everyone should be paid the ssame no matter if you were a factory owner or a factory worker. He even thought that the government should only have power and should own everything.