Joseph Stalin and Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism defines the act of a government, group taking total power and control of the society's life style. Stalin was a self fish man. he ended up turning his back to his allies to become a dictator by himself. Joseph Stalin controlled the media completely. this was the best way to manipulate the people to agree with what he says. he also was able to control and manipulate little children. they always believe whatever adults tell them. also children's always tell the truth.Joseph Stalin used children as a weapon to abolish those who were against him. children would snitch on their parents without realizing the harm they are creating. the five year plans was a rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. the great purges was a source to remove that opposite power and Their were persecutions and this was run by Joseph Stalin in 1930's.

Film Lesson: Doctor Zhivago

The movie Dr. Zhivago shows how Russia began to change during WWI. Lenin is leading the communist to take over Russia. There is no more czar. Communism means equality within all people and only the government rules. There is nobody richer than anybody else. In this movie Dr. Zhivago brother is part of the soviet union. Since Lenin is progressing to take over they move 13 families to Dr. Zhivago house. He has a big house since he is a doctor and wealthy. Since he lived in Moscow he realized the complete difference in the society. the people didn't want the czar because he controlled everything the way he wanted. Majority of the people were poor and were ordered by the richer people. They were like slaves and were punished the way the rich wanted to punish them. They didn't like this. Communism would make everybody equal.

Causes of WW I

WWI was based on competition within the nations. As the power of the nations grew, so did nationalism rise, and as well as militarism.
Franz Ferdinand was the archduke of austria. On June 28, 1914, at approximately 11:00 am, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed. They were assasinated bgy a serbian. This caused the great was becuase all the aliances from austria hungary and the alliances from serbia to go to war. As one country defended the other the was was rising more dangerously in all of europe.
As franze ferdinand was assanitated, other little piences caused these countries to explode against each other.
As the poeple wanted to revolt against thier own nations russia and austria hungary ended up losing territories after ww1.
great britiain and germany raced to have the best navies. it was thier compitition and caused them to go against each other in the war. france, germany and russia competed in building the best most powerful armies causing mittions of tons of weapons being produce. factories were making alot of money.
the alliances were: germany, austria hunagry and italy to form the triple alliance in 1882.
great britain , france and russia formed the triple entente in 1907

The Opium Wars

opium is a drug from a poppy seed plant that could be used to produce heroin. china was an isolated nation that didn't want anything to do with other nations. they were like stuck up and believed that their ancient rituals were the only thing they should worry. the British knew that they needed the resources from china so they they made the Chinese try opium drug until they were addicted to it. the Chinese got so addicted that many people couldn't live without it so British used this against them for exchanged of China's resources for example tea. china in their defense did like this at all. so they went to war with the British. the British crushed the Chinese because the British had more advanced technology weapon wise. they had machine guns,cannon and steam engine boats.

"The White Man's Burden"

The white man burden was written by Rudyard Kipling in 1899. it was originally written for queen Victoria. It was perfectly normal that white men constantly tried to colonize and rule people of other nations for their own benefit, both the people and the work may be seen as representing the "burden" of the title. I agree with the analysis because white people were traveling around exploring the world and robing resources from other nations. Two nations for example are Africa and India. Once the white people found the cure for malaria and their technology advanced they were unstoppable with their machines guns. Well whenever a country will have the power to control another country it is possible that imperialism to occur again.

"The Scramble for Africa"

The term "Scrabble for Africa" meant how European countries ( France, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Portugal) were so obsessed with the new land that everybodywanted Africa for their resources. They were all competing for resources. There resources were gold, wood,rubber, iron, tin, diamond, silver, copper, salt, ivory and other valuables. They were able to dominate Africa because they just invented
the machine gun and they also found the cure for malaria. With the cure of malaria they were able to go to the jungles and not die of the mosquitoes bites. This Scrabble affected the African people because the whites thought that they dominated the country and that they were the first race and the best race. They took advantage of the African people and made them into slaves. this also was a cause of theAfrican slave trade. The Europeans killed thousands of Africans and separated people within their tribes leading to also separation of families.

'Mountins Of The Moon"

The Europeans face crucial obstacles. They didn't have knowledge of the territories in Africa. They weren't familiar of the tribes and the way the tribes treated outsiders. They were scared but they had to continue their voyage for the source of the Nile river. The Africans tribes were so experience in throwing a sphere to kill their enemies. After months and months and months of their voyage when they did find the Nile they named it after the queen Victoria. When voyagers go out to explore they usually name what they discoveredit could be land, lake, mountains, etc. The explorers defeated the tribes with guns. But once thetechnology improved they invented machines guns and they were able to take over all of Africa.