The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution started on 1917. This removed Russia from the world war I. The Russian Revolutionary occurs around two primary events : The February Revolution and the October Revolution. In the February Revolution removed Tsar Nicholas II lost his throne and the provisional took power.In the October Revolution, the Provisional was overthrown by Bolsheviks. People were getting tired of their governments that they changed them 3 times. This cause the revolution. The quote peace, land, and bread was what they wanted. They wanted peace, land, and bread to eat.

Causes of World War I

There were several causes for the World War I. Some of the causes was Nationalism, Imperialism, and Bishmark and Alliances. World War I started on 1914 and ended on 1918. Military was one of the main causes of the first world war. The assasination of Francis Fernand causes world war I. The Industrial forced the Europeans to go over seas to search for raw materials which leads them to Africa. They start competing for land. Later Britain and France join together and end up as allies.

Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The Opium War between China and Great ritain was during 1839-1842. Opium is a medicine grown in India. It is used to relieve pain. It can also be dangerous. The british decided that they needed to balance their trade so they decided to sell and buy the drug to China. China didnt like it so they decided that whoever is dealing with Opium will be put to death. Opium is a drug grown in India and is used to make morphine and heroin. Most of the opium came from Turkey or India. The chinese wanted to stop the growing import trade in Opium. Obviously, the medicine wasn't doing any good, it turned into a drug. The tradings began to flourish. The British Opium trade started in China and began the world's first drug war. The British made the Opium out of tobacco so that it can be smoked.

Film lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

The Europeans had some hardships while traveling through Africa. Well first they were traveling by foot. Another was that they were losing some supplies like food and water. Some of them didn't survive the explore. Some of them got infected by the water they drank. It was pretty strange that one of the world's largest lake in the world the Nile River(Lake Victoria) was named after the British Queen. The Africans took advantage over the Europeans because they had a gun. Europeans were able to conquer Africa so easily.

Imperialism Project

For the project we did in class was we colored in certain countries to show which countries were taking over others and which ones had slaves and tea and cannons etc. To also show which countries were taking over other territories. Europeans had influenced many of the other countries like America, China, Middle East, Africa, Australia, Eastern America etc. I learned that England took over places in Canada. Spain and Portugal attained land in the Caribbean. Europeans are the one that conquered the most. Many people like in South America and Spain speaks Spanish now.

Karl Marx and Communism

Communism is a worldwide society. It is a form of gonernment made by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels. Communism is when all people should be equal. Meaning that private property, resources like plants, factories, oil, coal etc. should be owned in common by the people. Marx's ideas was that workers should be in control of factories and farms than landlords. There are more workers than landlords. He wants all the workers in the world to start a revolution. Karl Marx wanted communism to be taken over the world because he didn't like the fact that workers were working in factories very harsh and unsafe. After Marx died, communism didn't really take over because of the government. They didn't want communism stories written in newspaper or any criticizing about the government. Mongolia became the second nation of communism. Afteer WWII, many governments were overthrown.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818 and died on March 14, 1883. He was a German who was born a Jew. His father wanted him to move the family to Christianity to get a job. Mark didnt like the Industrial Revolution. He didn't like the ways workers were working in factories harsh and unsafe. This ispired him to make communism take over. Mark is a communist. He wanted the workers to unite in a worldwide revolution. He wanted a form of government where all the people own property and including land and capital.