The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution is the collective term for the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. The Russian Revolution of 1917 is also called the Bolshevik Revolution or the October Revolution. In 1917 there were actually two revolutions in Russia. One was the February Revolution in which the Tsar abdicated his throne and the Provisional Government took power.

The Russians had a revolution had a revolution because the peasants were treated very harsh by the soldiers and the Czars. They couldn't handle it and wanted to rebel and this soon became the Russian revolution. Some of the major causes of WW1 were peasants getting treated bad, and they humiliatinq them.

The febuary revolution took place in many millitary setbacks. In the october revolution, Bolshevik led by Lenin and the workers Soviets overthrew the provisional government. The Russian wanted peace, land and bread from the communists out of the revolution but they had many negative affects from the revolution.

Causes of WW I

There were many causes of World War 1. One for example was Militarism. Militarism denoted a rise in military expenditure and an increase in military and naval forces. It also added more influence of the military men upon the policies of the civilian government, and it gave some sollutions that resulted in war.

Another reason was the formation of alliances. The alliance system was started by Bismarck, the German Chancellor from 1871 to 1890. After the Franco-Prussian War, Bismarck thought that Germany was in a state which would give up ideas of further conquest. As a result, Bismarck organized a system of alliances designed to maintain Germany's leadership on the European continent. France was determined to challenge the power of Germany because France had been defeated by Germany in 1871 and had been forced to surender two provinces (Alsace-Lorraine) to Germany. Bismarck tried to help Austria, Russia, Italy and Britain in order to isolate France.Another factor which contributed to the war was imperialism. Great Britain, Germany and France needed foreign markets after the increase in manufacturing caused by the Industrial Revolution.

Opium Wars. Emperialism in China

This war was one of the very first drug wars and took place in chinait was Known as the Opium War and it also known for the Algo- chinese war. The drug was produced and shipped in from the East indies to china by the British. A lot of people were gettinq adiicted like the chinese got addicted to this drug in the early 1800s. When opium was first introduced to china everything started to get used for diseases like dynestry, cholera, and also diarrhea. when the people started to try the drug they couldnt leave it.

The britisg nduring 1700 discovered that opinum will be mixed with tobacco to be smoked.During the 1800 chinese green tea became popular that everyone started trying it and all the western countrys try it. When the chinese government realized that the bristish merchants weres sellinq the opinum drug to the chinese.

Until 1838 the opium drug was restricted from trade , The emperor wrote a letter to Queen Victoria asking why it was illegal in their country but selling china drugs. The letter unfortunately was never delivered directly to the Queen. Since the chinese warriors thought that the queen never acknowledged the letter than it the warriors thought that it challenged them. Chinese officials destroyed the opium drug and banned english man from china. China was ready to attack the british.

Film Lesson: Mountains Of The Moon

In the movie "Mountain of the moon" it was about dis two europeans named Richard Burtun and John Speke were two explorers looking for the source of the Nile river. They wanted to seach for the river, and they didnt give up until they find it. On their journey they had many problems. They meet africans that had never seen white people before so the Africans gave the European explores a hard time.

Some of the Africans treated the white people really bad. THe Europeans faced death not only from african tribes but from such things as malaria, yellow fever, dirty water, and lack of food. The reason why it strange that the source of the nile river was named after a white british queen because the source of nile river is in a african colony not in british but it should be named after the one that founded it. The source of the nile river which is now named Victoria is the 3rd most largest lake in the world. The advantage that the European explorers had was that they had guns back then it was the most dangerous weapon they used it to keep thgeir enemies away but now in this new world its like nobody cares who has a gun. So that help the European conquer the africans because the only thing the africans had were spears and the Europeans had guns.

Imperialism Project

We did the imperialism project to have and understanding of how it worked. I learned that Europe during this time was in a frenzy to capture land. Also i learned shipping routes were important in trading because without them getting spices would take a long time and would be very expensive. It was shown that Spain basically had complete control of South America except for Brazil which the Portuguese owned. I also saw that England had colonies all over the world. They owned their own places in North America, Africa, and Asia.

Karl Marx and Communism

Marx was born in Trier, Prussia in 1818. He loves to studied so started studying in philosophy at universities in Bonn and Berlin. Communism is a world wide society, there a form of government made by KArl Marx and Fredrick Engels. Communism is a when people should be equal and they should not be trated different. A lot of resources like plants, factories, oil, coal etc should be owned by people. Marx ideas was that workers should be in control of factories and faarms. He wants all the workers in the world to start a revolution. Marx wanted a communism to take over the world, he believe that everybody could make the same amount of money so theres no more poor.

When Karl Marx saw that the workers were force to work 16 hours a day, and they only have 40 minutes for lunch, and even that they only get pay with so little money, thats when Karl Marx thought it wasnt fair, he didnt want to see this happen any more. And so he wanted a change, he believe in that the worker has the power to do the things that they wanted to do.
Karl Marx communism it didint work like he expected. He realize that all the people are working for diferent jobs and they didnt pay them good. Its not fair for people that are working of the factory. Even thought he wants the good for peoplen but everything its not perfect.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was born being a Jew.But his father had to convert them into cristians so he could get a job and feed their family. Marx did not believe in god he thought workers were controlled by religion. Karl Marx was a German but all the ideas that he had change all the Russian history. Marx was angry becausen people in Europe treat the workers really bad. The factories in Russia was really harst and the workers had to suffer bad treatment and hunger and other stuff. Marx'sso was getting tired of seing people suffer and he had some ideas that were known as Communism, a word formed for common.

He said that the workers would share wealth in a communist society. Marx wrote that wealth should be distrubute according to their abailities. The ideas of Marx were not used in the communist but the time past and start to accept it. MArx believe that all the workers should control the government but the problem was that the government was to strict. All the workers were used to a hard job. Karl MArx saw the workers as the good guys and he saw the rich bussiness owners as the bad people. So he supposter the workers to start a revolution instead of telling them not to start a revolution. He was on the workers side. Also according to mArx communist had its own seed of destruction.