Joseph Stalin and Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism is state regulation of nearly every aspect of public and private behavior.The five year plan included two goals: rapid growth of heavy industry and increased farm production through collectivization of agriculture.Secret police spied on citizens, and anyone who refused to praise Stalin and the state faced severe punishment, even death. Both Lenin and Stalin supported the idea of a world communist revolution and aided communists in other countries. In the 1920s, when some communist uprisings did occur in Europe, they were quickly suppressed. Stalin became a communism leader and wanted full control.

Film Lesson: Doctor Zhivago

The film of doctor zhivago showed how Russia wanted to become a communism country.Some of the reasons the revolution happen was because the peasents were treated unfairly.The Russian soliders deserted war in rebelled against Czar. Since they could not decide on going to war or not they had so many conflicts which made a war. A sign of communism in the movie was when people was in Zhivago house that he didnt know n when you become a communism country you share everything including houses.

Causes of WW1

Nationalism is when you support your country. The Congress oif Vienna held after Napoleons exile to elba aimed problems to Europe . Britian, Austria, prussia,and russia decided on a new Europe which mad Germany and Italy as divided states. The settlement at the end of the Franco-Prussian war left France angry at the loss of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany and keen to regain their lost territory. Large areas of both Austria-Hungary and Serbia were home to differing nationalist groups, all of whom wanted freedom from the states in which they lived. Militarism the armies of both France and Germany had more than doubled between 1870 and 1914 and there was fierce competition between Britain and Germany for mastery of the seas. The British had introduced the 'Dreadnought', an effective battleship, in 1906. The Germans soon followed suit introducing their own battleships. The German, Von Schlieffen also drew up a plan of action that involved attacking France through Belgium if Russia made an attack on Germany. The map below shows how the plan was to work.

The Opium Wars

The Opium Wars was a British trade in China and was the first drug war. China was a country by itself. The British wanted to make money and trade with China. Chinba exported tea to Britian and return got drugs. They were called the Opium Wars because they Opium was a highly addictive drug that the English were giving the Chinese. The English won the Opium wars because they had modern technology and weapons and the Chinese couldnot compare.