Joseph Stalin and Totalitarianism

The defenition of Totalitarianism is the form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator. Stalin was one of most powerful and murderous dictators in history, Stalin was the ruler of the Soviet Union . He caused the death and suffering of tens of millions of people.The five year plan was a plan that would turn the country into a major industrial power with in five years.

Film Lesson: Doctor Zhivago

The Russian people wanted to change to communism because they were hungry and mistreated. In the film Doctor Zhivago they show comunism as equal for everyone. Everyone had to get the same of everything. When the doctor came back he had to live with more people in his house then before families nmoved in. The doctor tought communism was fair but he didint like it because before he was rich and with comunism he was the same as everyone else.

Causes of WW I

The primary causes of the war were nationalism mitiralism and the assasination of Archduke Francis.Trough nationalism people didint want to be ruled by other countries. Nationalistic speeches and writings hastened the war by painting it as the best test for proof of national superiority it turned Frenchman against German and Russian against Austrian.When Archduke Francis of Austria was assassinated a month later, the war started.
Germany stood back of Austria's actions, while Russia stepped forward to defend it small Balkan friend. As the world looked on, Europe was into war almost overnight.

The Opium Wars.

The Opium wars where between the Brithish and the Chinese. The chinese didint want to trade with anyone or open their ports for trade. The British wanted to trade with the chinese so they tough of a drug that the chinese people coudent resist this was Opium. nearly 2 million pounds of opium were being sold in China each year, opium weakened a large amount of the Chinese population. In the 19th century, 10 percent of the Chinese population was smoking opium. This also affected China economically.The goverment in china discovered the British smuggling opium into China to sellit in 1838 that efforts to restrict the opium trade were taken they lead an anti-opium campaign Lin wrote a letter to Queen Victoria of England arguing that if the opium was so harmful in its effects that Britain had made opium trading and consumption illegal in England, then why was England exporting such harmful products to other countries. 1840, British gunboats arrived and attacked China, destroying many coastal cities. This was known as the First Opium War the British won because they had much larger boats then the chinese.

The White Man's Burden

The White Man's Burden is to undermine imperialism.The poem is mostly saying that the white men should civilize the world.They thought it was their duty to go and force people their ways of civilization, to be proper civilized people.I think today the U.S is impearistic because they try to make people do things example in iraq.I dont agree with the White mans Burden because i think that people shoudent try to take over other people and tell them how to live.

The Scramble for Africa

The Scramble for Africa began in 1881 it was when the Everyone wanted to get land from africa and the resources.The main European nations that were involved in this scramble was France, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Portugal.These nations were looking in Africa for natural resources like petroulium and minerls, They were able to dominate Africa so easy because they had guns and were more advanced than. this effected the Africans because they put differnt tribes together and sometimes enemies were put togther this caused alot of violence among the Africans. The Europeans didn't care because they were getting what they wanted

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

In the film some of the hardships that Europeans faced as they explored Africa was the weather. The hot weather of African desserts. Another hardship that the Europeans also faced was the lack of food many of the people took the food with them leaving a liltle bit to the explorers. And another one that afected the Europeans was the bugs there were many bugs with malaria or many dissieses. The thirds world largest river is the source of the Nile it was named Victoria because of the queen of England Victoria.The primary technological advantage that Europeans had over African people was guns.The africans hadent seen the guns before so that was an advantage over them this also made them to be able to conquer Africa more easily