Causes of WWI

In the 1910's there were countries alliances. theses countries were building there armies they really didn't like each other, which would lead to war. this was is militarism when a nation is building armies. so when Serbia had assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand it basically started the WW1. So when the assassination had happened the allinace and peace between the those countries had ended.

The Opium Wars

The Opium War was also called the Anglo-Chinese War and was the most humiliating defeat that China ever suffered. In European history this is perhaps the most sordid, base, and vicious event in European history, possibly, just possibly, overshadowed by the excesses of the Third Reich in the twentieth century. In the era of the opium wars the British would sell the drugs to the Chinese people so they can get them to trade with them. But in the years the Chinese would get very addicted to it and the Chinese government would want the Brit's to stop selling it to them. the Brit's' had said no and continued to sell the opium. overall the British had won this war because they were technological advanced then the chinese.

Film lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

In the Film Mountains of the Moon the hardships that the Europeans faced where malaria in the mosquitoes, deserts, tribes that weren't encountered, disease waters, and thief's that where hired. lake Victoria is the source of the Nile river and no its not strange because just how it is. its named lake Victoria because john speke had discovered it and name it after the queen. they had better weapons and more knowlodge. and they went back with wawy better guns and killed all the tribes with their machine guns.

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Mathew Perry went in with several gun ships to force the Japanese trade and then without a fight they gave in. But the Japanese where impressed by the technology that the Americans. they had liked the guns and the ships. the economy had change when the Meiji era arrived. they started trading with other countries and making the uses of their resources.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx idea of communism was that the workers would rule the giant companies because the big time bosses (bourgeoisie) were screwing the workers (proletariat) over with little pay and long hours. so he wanted a community were every body gets paid the same way as any body else does. Karl Marx wanted communism to be don all over the world because he thought that it make the world a little more fair in the eyes of the workers. he thought that the good guys were the workers and the bad guys were the big time bosses. he thought that because he realized that the workers were being played and he saw ahead of his time what the industrial revolution would do.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx felt that industrial revolution was cruel to the workers and the factory owners didn't treat the workers with respect and they didn't give them enough time to take a break and eat for lunch. he was inspired by the industrial revolution to unite the workers together. and he had this idea that all the workers would share their wealth in a common community, and "they should be distributed by his abilities and needs."

Nationalism

Nationalism means loyalty and devotion to a nation or ethnic group that places emphasis on promoting the interests, cultural and social values, or religion of one. I'm sort of nationalistic because I like our freedom and every day i wake up i thank that I'm privileged enough to be in this country. Nationalism was used to create Italy because Italy was made up of different empires and when the people fought back they created Italy.