The russian revolution

In 1914, the russian goverment considered Germany as a threat to their territory. This was then Germany's decision to form a triple alliance with Austria- Hungary and italy. The Russian army was the largest army in the nation but Russia's poor road and railways made the effective deployment for the soldiers difficult. The economic factors were the main factors contributing to the Revolution, as they resulted in poverty, misery and exploitation of the masses by the nobility.Russia was mainly a highly backward agricultural country before the revolution. The royal family, the nobility and the clergy owned most of the agricultural land. Only between three and ten acres of land was owned by 70% of the peasants. Many of them had to earn their livelihood only 2½ acres land or even less. In addition they had to use primitive tools, implements and methods of cultivation, which were not very productive. After the october revolution, the new bolshevik goverment abolished private ownerships of land and began distributing it among the peasents. During the civil war, the goverment decided to introduce what became known as war communism

Causes of WW1

World War 1, was the tine when leaders had the agression towards other countries and being supported by the rising nationalism of the European nations. Economic and imperial competition and fear of war prompted military alliances and an arms race, which further escalated the tension contributing to the outbreak of war. After the year 1907, the military was increased in policy making. In 1914, the Russian generals were also able to force the Czar to accept full mobilization. They threatened him with the danger of defeat if he acted contrarily. Europe had reached its breaking point when on June 28, 1914, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assasinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, by a Serbian nationalist belonging to an organization known as the black hand. These were the results that started World War 1.

opium war- imperialism in china

The opium war all started with a trade between the british and china, it was the very first drug war in the 19th century. Some people refer to as angelo-chinese war, opium is made from a juice of poppy seapods and it would later be produced into heroin. Back in the 18th century, Opium is regulary used as a medicene, by the 1800's the black market changed it into a drug which cause millions of people from china to get addicted. Commissioner Lin Zexu had battled the problem of drug use in the provinces of Hubei and Hunan, and he now attempted to eliminate opium. He blockaded the foreign community, stopped trade, ordered Chinese servants to leave, arrested a leading foreign dealer, and demanded that the merchants surrender their inventory of opium. When the war began, the chinese were no match for the britsh due to the military poorly trained. The treaty of nanjing had to make china give up opium and hong kong to the british.

Mountains of the moon

One of the hardships that the Europeans faced is that they had to fight for their lives. People got diseases, people died they had very little water.It was strange because africa is a black country and the queen is a white woman.They were more civilized the africans had spears and the europeians had guns so we had better weaponry thats why it was easy to conquer africa.

Imperialism Project

It was to show the countries that the Europeans conquered in parts of the Americas, and Africa. It showed the divisions of the countries in those continents. We also showed the shipping routes and what they traded to each other. I learned that many countries were conquered by various European countries such as Great Britain and Spain. I also learned things they traded such as Gold and Silver. I learned that slavery was also involved in Africa and South america. Some diseases were spread in many different countrys near South America causing half of the population decreasing.

Karl Marx and communism

Kar marx, He believed that capitalism would destroy the south.The reason why he believed this was due to the fact that he saw 2 great classes in capitalism at war with each other.The first was proletariet or the working class and the second class was the bourgeoisie or the owners of businesses.He believed that that the proletariet would eventually begin a revolution and take over the country.Then they would controll all the businesses.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was born in May 5, 1818, he was a german philosopher. Marx worked in a factory before in Europe, but he was dismayed. Due to the factory conditions were said to be harsh and very unsafe. He was a Communist. He made up and wrote a book about " Communism ". He started it during the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution is when factories increased, including the pollution, many transportations has been created and many cities were growing. Communism is basically about equality to everyone, but with the control of the government.

Karl Marx didn't like the idea of Capitalism, where everyone works independently and people are treated differently. He thought that whole idea of Capitalism was unfair, so he thought his idea would benefit a lot of people. He was tired of the industrial revolution. He didn't like the conditions of it either. Though Communism is about equality, it was still a very strict government, and it failed. Theres still countries today that have communism, but only a few.