Saturday, January 16, 2010

The Russian Revolution

The start of the Russian Revolution was when Czar was leader and they were at war with Germany they were getting destroyed in battle fields so they chose to quit the war and go home. since they quit the war Russia had to give part of there land and have a peace treaty with Germany. Then cause the revolution. Czar was force to step down and Bolshevik communist people began to us this to make Russia a communist country. They wanted a new government and so communist came in and things began to change. Lenin a leader of communist promise the people peace and change for every one. they had to share everything and the government controlled every thing.

WWI

The Triple alliance and the Triple Entente ,2 alliance fight against each other because Nationalism, Militarism, and Assassination of Franz Ferdinand. the Triple alliance was Germany, Italy and Austria Hungary and the triple entente was France, Russia, and England. the start of the war was when Francis Ferdinand was visting a country when a serbian shot him and led to a chain reaction of the start of war war I.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Opium Wars - Imperialism in China

The start of the Opium wars was that British wanted to trade with china, but since china was Isonalists they dint feel comfortable on trading. they were isolated from other countries they thought they were better than every one else. Then British started giving out free opium, opium was a drug that was given to the Chinese people for free for there plan. Very soon the Chinese people became very addicted to it. so the British stop giving out opium unless china will let them trade tea with them. then china got mad and started the war with them both. since china was isonalist they weren't very strong but they thought they were which mad them really far behind.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

Europeans faced many difficulties in africa like bugs that are deadly because they have a decease in them and if they bite you u get affected and u die. also african because they are invading there territory. they were looking for the nile river and the Europeans named it Lake Victoria - the third largest lake in the world. It is wired that they named it after the british queen because the queen is white and the country is all black. later on Europeans conquered africa so easy because africans weapons were spears and arrows and Europeans had guns. so they wipe them out and conquered them.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Imperialism Project

We did the Imperialism Project to get a better understanding of where is imperialism. Of what countries were it and what conutries were not. What i learn about this progect was that the contries were able to control goods like the british. They controled most of it. we drew shipping roats and colored in the land that were important.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx was german and created the idea communism. He doesn't like the idea industrial revolution. He doesn't agree with the workers in europe He thought that the works had power over the landlords. This made him think of Communism were the governments would control everything and the people cant do nothing about it. He wanted every body to work for the same money and saw that they all were treated equal.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

karl marx was born on may 5th,1818. He created communism and dint like the idea of industrial revolution because he thought it wasn't fair for people. he thought people should be payed the same money. Some people work harder than others and still get payed the same. communism is still around today like in cuba. communism is control by the governments like the house u live in and cars. This led to people leaving the countries because its not fair for people.