The Russian Revolution

The Revolution break out in Russia in 1917.It destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. The Russian Revolution also called Bolshevik Revolution.During the Russian Revolution Russian get involved into World War I, and that time there were fighting with Germany, lots of people were killing during the war. Bolsheviks was the leader of the Russian Revolution, the reason that the revolution starts because of the people were tired of the government so they wanted a change. The Russian workers wanted to paied just enough to keep them alive. The workers did not have any rights. The Russian people did not wanted to have a Czar when Czar Nicholas gone there was no government strong to continue running Russian society in the old ways. This is the reason why Russian people wanted a Revolution.

Causes of WW I

World War One was started in 1914.The event triggering it was the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. By a member of the "black hand gang". They were of Serbian Nationalists determend to help the Serbians of Bosnia break free from Austria-Hungary control.
So when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia France and England came to help, Germany and Italy came to help Austria-Hungary so basikly every one was in a World War.

The Causes of the war was Nationalism, Militarism, Assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

Each nation's nationalism was cause by a buildup in military forces in the years prior to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. The nationalist feelings also led to many men volunteering to join their nation's army.

Militarism is using military power to solve diplomatic crises, it influenced the arms rac. It was a direct cause of WW1 because the Germans based their diplomacy around their military.The arms race caused the war, both sides felt provoked after the assasination of the Ferdinand.Both sides felt threatened, they did not trust each other, and that caused the war.

In 1914 the event triggering it was the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. By a member of the "black hand gang".

Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The Opium War was the British and China from 1839 to 1842. British force China to allow free tread particularly in Opium. British decided they needed to balance their tread. That's mean that they must buy and sell to China, not just buy.So British got Opium form India and they decided to tread China Opium. Opium is a drug grown in India. Opium is used to make morphine and other drugs. Opium is used for relive pain, it help with sleeplessness. Sometimes Opium can be dangerous. The British felt the rulers in China had no right to keep opium from their people. The Opium War lasted from 1839 to 1842.On the Opium War Chinese also lost control of the important island of Hong Kong.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

Last two days we where watching move called "Mountains of the Moon". It is about two British explorers Richard Frances and Jhon Henning they went Africa to find Nile River Source.They were sent by the Royal Geographic society of London. When they were their they had known a lot of information. They had many problems, bad eating habbits, dirty water. They had to sleep with the light off if they didn't the bugs would crawl on you and also it would get in your ears that's what happen in the movie to Jhon Henning. Naile River is named after white British queen. Thes source of Nile River which is now named Victoria is the 3rd 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. And that help the European conquer the Africans because the only thing the Africans had spears and the Europeans had guns.

Imperialism Project

The reason why we did this project is to learn about how imperialism spread around the world.
I learned many things form this project. We have to found countries in the map and label them with the goods they had in their countries. I also learned things they tread such as gold and silver. Great Britain tread Opium to China. We have to drow a lot of sipping routes and colored with different colores becouse imperialism was spreading.

Karl Marx and Communism

Communism is a system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress tohward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people. Karl Marx lived during Industrial Revolution and he did not like what he sow. That's way Karl Marx ideas was known as Communism. He wanted that workers would share the wealth in a communiism society.Under Communism the government would own all property and everyone would be paid the same.
According to Marx, this would end the evils of Industrialization and Capitalism.
Russia eventually tried a system of Communism, but this system failed after about 70 years.

There still are Communist Countries Chin, Cuba, and North Korea.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution evented Many new machines that could make products much faster, and new sources of power helped to run these machines. People began to move from farms to cities in order to work at these new factory jobs. But the Industrial Revolution also allowed people to acquire more products as goods became cheaper and more plentiful. Karl Marx lived early during Industrial Revolution and he did not like the Industrial Revolution. Karl Marxs felt that Industrial Revolution allowed the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. He viewed the Industrial Revolution as an extension of feudalism, where factory workers were like peasants and factory owners like nobles. Marx wanted the workers to share everything. That's way Marx ideas worked for Communism.