The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was all about political problems and government . The Russian revolution was divide into 2 part the February revolution and the October Revolution. The February revolution  was during 1917  and  was about the  collapse of czar Nicholas 2 . October Revolution was about the Bolshevik  party, led by  Vladimir Lenin, and the workers'  soviets, overthrew the Provisional Government in Petrograd. The Russian  had a revolution because they were tired of the way their government  treated them. The major cause of the Revolution was Because czar   made Russian get into WWI  and alto of soldier were lost because russia didn't have enough equipment.The Revolution was all about  fighting for their right to be treated better  and to change their government. Lenin was the leader or the revolution 

he made the Bolsheviks party he took control. The quote "Peace, land and bread" mean what everyone in russia  wanted the reason why russia went on a revolution  they were miserable  so they got tired , they starved, they wanted food and peace. Lenin took his idea of communism from karl marx.

Cause of WWI

The cause of  world war I was  the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the Habsburg throne, on June 28, 1914. That's when everything started. Then people started to get alliances just in case they needed back up. United states was the last one to get involved . Because USA dint want to get no enemies  or get in to  danger .

The primary causes of the war was Nationalism, Militarism, Assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the collapse of the alliance system. Nationalism happened with Germany and Italy . Italy didn't wanna be  cool with Germany they didn't want to be become one  because they felt different they were loyal to their country they didn't want to change things. assassination of Frankz Ferdinand contributed to the cause of this war    by  Austrian people  wanting to  punish  Serbia  for killing their leader so  Austria joined  alliance with Germany to do whatever  to Serbia. Also Militarism  was a way to countries used to solve problem and the bigger the military the more powerful you are and the more money. also this game more jobs to people it increased jobs .

Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The Opium war was from 1839  to 1842, it was between Britain and  china. it all started when  Europe wanted to trade with different countries. So when  Great Britain went to India they found this plant well this drug. so then they went to china and since china didn't wanna trade with them. Britain  though  if we get them addicted to the drug then  they gonna want ti all the time and they would agree trading with us. That actually worked but then the Chinese government notice what they were doing  so he prohibited selling opium or using it. so then Britain got mad but they kept trying so they went to war with china and took over Hon Kong  and that's how China and USA ,etc   they trade with china now. It also helped  china getting out there to learn from  other and new things. And  not only that's one of the reason why china is so advance with technology now . This war was called the Opium war  because  the opium plant  was what stared the Chinese and Britain to fight since Britain wanted to trade so bad with china  , but china didn't. But at the end  Great  Britain  won  because they had china addicted to the opium and they convinced china. Also they had  better technology and weapons.The British  had firepower . and they took control of the important island of Hong Kong. And  China was also forced to legalize the selling of opium.

 

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

The film " Mountains of the Moon "  was about  finding  the source of the Nile river  it basically talk about exploring Africa where no white people had ever been before. it showed imperialism in many. Some of the hardships that Europeans faced as they explored Africa was  the diseases, bugs, the weather type, the wild , trying to get  to the source of the Nile by walking , also  by being attack  many times by different tribes in Africa. But at the end  they found the source of the Nile and when they found it they named it lake Victoria and this was really weird because they didn't discovered the lake  people in Africa knew it was there but they didn't really cared about that  but John speek  and Richard Burton named it  Victoria because they were superior then Africans they had more  power . And that's how imperialism work . Also Europeans had way better technology than  African and  one of the primary technology was  guns this was an advantage  Europeans  had over Africans. Europeans eventually  were able to conquer Africa very easily   because they had guns , they had machines to make the guns too, Europeans also found the cure for malaria.

Imperialism Project

We did the Imperialism project to see how overtime countries owned others. a lot of countries were starting to trade . they started to bring slaves too, gold, silver, copper, coal , making factories in different part of the world to spread different ideas and trading help each other learn new thing.

Not everyone would come back a live though a few would survive their journey. One person that went on a journey to find an easier way to get spices from India was Christopher Columbus. They would go to India to get spices, cotton and opium but spices was important for Europeans. Instead of ending up in India Christopher Columbus ended in America what he called the New World. Finding the New World was better because now Europe was earning more money with the crops they grew in the New World.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx was a communism who studied philosophy. Marx made up a way of government he had an idea of communism in paper is sounded great but it wasn't practical . communism was a way to be fair with people. communism is when a country is govern by one person that the government control everything and owned everything in the country. people were paid the same salary even if they worked indifferent thing everyone had equal pay same pay. People had no ownership.
Karl Marx's idea of Communism was to be fair , equal and not let people ever starved again.He didn't believe in social classes.
According to Marx, capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction. Communism was the inevitable end to the process of evolution begun with feudalism and passing through capitalism and socialism.
Marx wanted Communism to take over the world so people wont be taken advantage of and so thing would be fair and equal.Marx believed that workers would control government, but communist governments were strict and dictatorial. Workers were often forced to work on huge collective farms and factory workers often had to fulfill quotas. In most Communist nations, the press was censored. They were not allowed to print news stories that criticized the government. People who spoke out against the Soviet government were treated harshly. Marx believed that the good guys were the people/ the workers(the proletariat) and the bad ones were the owner of factories(capitalists) because the capitalists took advantage of the worker mad them work for a lot for hours for cheat salary.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

Marx was a German guy who use to be a Jewish but changed into christian.Marx was alive around the time of the industrial revolution. Marx felt that the industrial revolution was bad that workers were treated badly , they were controlled, worked and really bad condition and were unsafe. he was so against the industrial revolution that he stared to think of the idea about communism. he felt that the industrial revolution people were treated like machines not like people . The Industrial revolution inspired marx to invent communism so everything can be fare and so people wont be taken advantage of because he saw how people were treated in factories and how hard they work and so little money they got . people were being taken advantage of and he felt like that needed to be changed so he came with the ideas communism.