The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a bunch of revolutions in Russia during the year 1917. The Russians demanded a revolution because Czar Nicholas II was preventing any change and stopped anyone who tried to take his throne. When Czar was finally removed a temporary government was created. Russia still continued to fight in WWI and refused to leave the war, the new temporary government created was a democratic government, but the peasants revolted against the landowners and factory owners.

In the revolution there was a clash between the democratic government and the Bolshevik party. The Bolshevik party then signed a treaty with Germany and left the WWI because they were no match for a country with so many power and weapons russians had never seen. The Bolsheviks used Karl Marx's idea of communism and formed their own government and this led to the first country using carl marx communism. The land part was for communism, the Bolshevik party led by Lenin who wanted all russians to revolt against landlords and factory owners and then take their land.

The Causes Of WWI

One of the main reasons of World War I was because of nationalism which means respect for ones country. Militarism also played its role in this war because it was a country who was always ready for war. The biggest cause of the war was on June 28th, 1914. It was the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand. The killing was done by a Serbian nationalist who killed the Archduke on his trip to Sarajevo.

This led to Austria blaming the Serbians for this incident and pulled this into the brink of war. One after another countries started to defend one another. Germany considered Austria to be on the same side as them so they would be able to help them out in war. Soon other countries decided to join saying if they declare war on Serbia then they declare war on the opposing country. One after another led to the beginning of World War One. Once this happened Austria allied with germany and with that power had total control over the serbians and then two alliances formed the triple alliance which consisted of Germany,Austria-Hungary,Italy and there was also the triple Entente which had the United Kingdom,France and Russia.

The Opium War

The Opium Trade in China between the British and the Chinese was the very first drug war of the 19th century and provoked a great war. It was called the Opium War Opium is a preparation made from the juice of poppy seedpods and used to produce heroin.The drug was mainly produced in and shipped from the East Indies to China by British merchants. This addictive drug had gotten many Chinese badly hooked by the early 1800s, this highly addictive drug led china to fall money wise and its army began to collapse.

This made tax collectors charge more and more to local villages and made the people poorer and poorer. These drugs used got the chinese mad and they stopped trading for opium, this raged the british and they declared war on the chinese. The british used their industrialized weapons to fight the chinese, these battles went on for three years. Finally the chinese people were defeated easily because of the more advanced technology that the British hold due to their industrialization of the industrial revolution.They made china sign a treaty that enabled china to give the British trade and obligated china to open trading ports.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

In class we watched a movie called "Mountains of The Moon". The movie started very intresting when Burton lived after a spear cut right through his face. This movie implied imperialism because Richard Burton and John Speke were on a mission to find the source of the Nile river. One of the fnniest parts of this movie is when the english people present the tribe with advanced technology equipment and burton gives the leader a gun, and the leader decided to shoot somone and as he did the whole tribe became terrified at the object.

On the road to find the source on of the nasties parts was when Speke was sleepin and forgot to put up his bug net and a beetle climbed up his ear. When Speke claims that he had found the Nile river problems evolve between the two explorers and Burton questions him how is Speke sure that what he has found is the source, and this leads to a trial. In the end Speke couldn't take much more and ends up killing himself.

Burton then decides not to continue saying anything after hearing that his companion has died and finalli it is proven that Speke indeed was right Lake Victoria was the source of the nile. A question that was encountered by the global class after the video was why was the lake called after the English queen when the lake was located in Africa and in the class concluded that this was due to that during that period imperialsm was occurring and since the Europeans had more better technologies they could capture and rename whatever they wanted and pleased.

Imperialism Project

Over the days we worked on a project on imperialism. What I learned was that imperialism is when one country tries to take over another country to gain control over their economic, social, and political lives. For the completion of this project we had to attach labels such as tea,cotton etc to different countries.

We also had to draw trade route to show where the products were imported from and exported from. Many of the products were transported from one place to another by ship, the main point of this project was to demonstrate which countries from Europe went to which part of the world to get thier raw materials for thier industrial revolution. Many countries went down to africa and conquered them for thier materials, others like britain n spain went to india and china south america.

When we started coloring the countries and the territory they conquered I was shocked to see so many countires from eurpoe spread all over the world to south america,north america,africa,asia. All in less than 20 years and for the purpose only to obtain slaves to do thier work and raw materials for their huge industrialization. What also outstanded me is that great countries would take advantage of their superior weapons and force people to give them the products they desierd and also trick them to give them what they want for example when british gave Chinese opium for tea, this was a trick to get the material they needed and end up leading to the opium wars.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx had an idea on starting a new idea for the working people. That idea was called communism. Communism is about the workers getting paid the same even when they all work different jobs. This also involved people not being able to own their own land or property. This was Karl Marx idea of communism and he wanted it to be spreaded all over. Karl wanted all workers to be on the same level not have different ways.

This also supported people who wanted to get the money they deserved and weren't getting. Everyone was working the same job and had to under one major owner. This is why Karl Marx wanted The "good guys" were the factory workers who didn't like the way they were being treated and workedlong hours for low wages and less time breaks. The "Bad Guys" are the Factory owners who controlled everything that happens in the factory because they controlled the workers.

Karl Marx and the industrial revolution

Karl Marx is German born in Europe. He was born a jew but his family converted to christianity. He didnt believe in god, he thought religion was a drug for the people. When he worked he thought it was unfair, unsafe and very harsh how the landlordsand owners of jobs treated the workers. From there on he urged workers to unite and fight back landlords and owners of the jobs. He felt workers rather than landlords should control the land and farms, all of his ideas were known as communism.

Communism was the term to define the communist workers of the jobs. He fought for the rights of the worker men. The ideas of Marx were not used in the communist countries. People who spoke out against the Soviet government were treated harshly. Marx died in 1883, but his ideas formed the basis of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Mongolia became the second communist nation in 1921 and by the end of World War II many governments were overthrown by communists.