The Cause Of WW1

There were many causes to the great war that lasted such a long period of time but some events lead to the war more than others.The attack on serbia set Germany off ehich put a chain of events that wold envolve the majiority of europe,america,and asia.The war had started in a way because an assasination on an important dipomat named Frantz Ferdinand and this led europe ino a world of war and dedtruction.At the time everyone thought a war would be great and jumped into it with both feet but did not realize the death and genocide it would cause.The war raged on for many years involving trench warfare,gas tourture,and even machine guns it was the most brutal and deadly war the earth had ever experienced and the death toll was millions.All for political reasons a vast number of europeans,asians,and americans lost their lives in the event known as the great war.

Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was the uprising of the people and their retalliation to being unsupported by their government.The people wanted to end the violence and starvation.So the people took steps to end the communist Reign of the current russian leadership and trie to get a leader like jospeh stalin.After the collapse of the Soviet Union,Russia tried to follow the other governments of the world and change the previous communist ideals and practices.This was a major turning point in russian history

Chinese Imperialsm And The Opium Wars

Opium was an addictive drug in the 1700s when europe went to china they traded opium knowing the chinese would get addicted and come back for more and would need opium from europe to give to the addicted people in china.Chinese officials were angered and did not want to trade with europe but were forced to and had imperialsm brought to them even though they wanted to remain isolation.Due to opium china had to open the "floodgates" to europe and trade for opium due to addiction.Europe did not want to see china isolated so they gave them no choice.

Mountains Of The Moon

In the film mountains of the moon we see british explorers traveling throughout africa to fina a lake that was a source of the nile. The hardships faced were desert terrain,laack of food and water, and unknown surrondings which would have lead to serious issues.Also the african people were scared and somewhat threatned by the new travelers and would sometimes show force or anger.The technolgies they had brought the africans never saw adn they were baffled and the europeans gave them a gun which the leader african liked and did not harm them because of the gifts.They found the source lake and named it lake victoria after the queen of england and had european influence in the conteinent of africa.

Imperialsm Project

The imperialsm project was like a demonstration of how fast land was conquered and changed to fit into the rest of the world.We saw how the change was a great effect and how the diagram quickly changed in the small representation of real life.The project showed me how easy it was for a country to quickly grow and expand and develop because of imperialsm and how they were conquered