The Russian Revolution

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Causes of WW I

There were many causes of WWI. The first cause of WWI is militarism. Militarism was cause of the war, because Britain had a great navy, Germany wanted a great navy too. Germany and France competed for larger armies. The more one nation built up its army and navy, the more other nations felt they had to do the same.

The second cause the war was imperialism. Another cause was that European nations ruled smaller countries and competed with each other to build up more colonies. Gathering colonies became known as imperialism. Both France and Britain had many colonies in Africa and Asia. Now Germany and Italy decided they wanted a colonial empire too.


The last cause of WWI is nationlism. In addition to political conflicts, the causes of the war included such forces as nationalism. Nationalism led European nations to compete for the largest army and navy, or the greatest industrial development. It also gave groups of subject people the idea of forming independent nations of their own.

The Opium War

The Opium war started because the Chinese started a anti-opium campaign. They did not want the Englishmen to trade opium in china anymore because it was damaging their economy because the china men would trade all its silver & gold for opium. The government didn't want to give all there silver & gold away, if the opium wasn't being used in a good manner. So when the Chinese started to ban opium selling in china, the British took that ass offense & they also took it as offense when they send a letter to the queen about the illegal opium selling in England. So then the British thought that was immediate war. the Opium wars was named after opium because it was basically about how china didn't want opium to be sold in their country anymore. They saw opium as a threat to society & that's why they wanted it to stop. The Opium War was also the first drug war in the history of the world.

Film lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

The hardships the Europeans faced in Africa was disease, being attacked by other African tribes & also it was hard to navigate around because they didn't know the conditions there. It's strange that the third largest lake, Lake Victoria is named after a British queen because the lake is named after a queen in a whole different continent & because the explorers who explored in Africa were from Europe. The technological advantage the Europeans had over the African people was that they had guns & they had boats that ran on coal, so they didn't need a sail. The Europeans were eventually able to conquer the Africans because the Africans were not as strong as them. The Europeans had better weapon than the Africans did. The Africans soon gave up after seeing how strong their weapons were.

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Perry impressed the Japanese by his ships. They were amazed by how his ship had no sail. The Japanese never saw technology like this before. The Meiji Restoration increased industrialization in Japan. This led to a rise in military authority. They wanted to enrich the country &
strengthen the military. Japan observed european countries & observed the way they lived & how they were industrialized.

Karl Marx and Communism

Communism is a system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common. Karl Marx saw that during the Industrial revoultion, people were being worked to the bone & that the bosses of these companies or factories weren't doing anything. He said that people should be treated equally instead of people being below someone else. Karl Marx felt that communism would help the factory workers, by how everyone in government was equal & owned things equally, instead of one main person owning the whole thing to themselves.
Karl Marx wanted communism to take over the world because everyone in the world be equal.Karl Marx saw the workers as good guys because he felt that they were doing what they were suppose tio be doing, but at some point they should have took up for themselves. He felt that the bosses of the factories were bad guys because they didn't do anything, they just told the workers what to do &put themin very hard work conditions.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

The way Karl Marx felt about the Industrial Revolution was that it was bad. He didn't like the way the factory workers were being treated, because European factories were very harsh & an unsafe place. He argued that workers should control the factories & farms, rather than their landlords.

The Industrial Revolution inspired Marx to create Communism by how he wanted the workers of the world to unite & form a worldwide revolution. The workers would share wealth in the communist society. He said that wealth should be distributed according to his abilities & his needs. He believed that workers could control government.