Causes of WW I

The First World War had many causes. The spark of the Great War, was the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife by a Serbian nationalist on the morning of June 28, 1914, while traveling in a motorcade through Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Archduke was chosen as a target because Serbians feared that after his ascension to the throne, he would continue the persecution of Serbs living within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

This was the first war in the human history where the weapons of defense were superior to offensive. The First World War was the first war to use poison gas as a military weapon. The two biggest and horrifying battles of this war, are the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme. Over million soldiers were killed on both sides only in a single battle of Somme during 1916. The human kind had never sees such battles throughout the whole history, with so many losses, which was quite shockfull experience for the soldiers who fought the First World War. This war resulted shortages in practically everything, and rising prices. By the end of 1916 America was still not involved in the war.

The Opium Wars.

the opium wars was a preparation made from the juice of poppy seedpods, and used to produce heroin. What happened during the Opium wars was that the Chines did not want to trade with the British any more because the British were selling a harm full drug to the Chines for tea. So the British did not like this so they fought the Chines. The British won the war because the British had advanced technology and strong army's but most importantly strong ships that the Chines could not stand a chance to there own.

The Meiji Restoration of Japan.

The name that the Japanese gave to their land is Nihon (“sun origin”), which heavily reflects their belief that all Japanese are descendents of the Sun Goddess. The Japanese had consciously closed the door to outside intervention because they felt they had nothing good to learn from the barbaric people of the west, they may have been right; Over the 250 years that the Japanese practiced a closed door policy with the west, they enjoyed relative peace, prosperity, and advancement of the arts. By the 1820’s the Samurai class in Japan had become aware of foreign military might through the word of those who had traveled abroad. (Some Japanese found their way around the world upon foreign fishing boats.) Even some government aids such as Mizuno Tadakuni who had studied Dutch gunnery and English Industry in the 1840’s warned the Shogun of European advances; Mizuno prescribed a system of Eastern Ethics with Western Technology.

Karl Marx and Communism

Communism is a way to keep everyone "equal" to let everyone feel as if one doesnt have more than the other.If everyone is working for the same amount of money than no one has more than the other at the end of the week.It was a way to show balance and structure.He saw the good guys as the worker.The people who would work for little money and stay for hours a day.Dispite the working conditions weather safe or not.The bad guys would have been the land owners.The bosses, the people who were causing all of the men to over work, and still not have everything needed.The guys who worked children and took away their oportunity for an education.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution.

I think that karl marx feel sad because the Conditions in European factories were very harsh and unsafe. also Marx's ideas were known as Communism, a word formed for common. Marx died in 1883, but his ideas formed the basis of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Marx believed that workers would control government, but communist governments were strict and dictatorial.

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy.

Nationalism is the belief that one’s greatest loyalty should not beto a king or an empirebut to anation of people who share a common culture and history. for example if you live in a country like in america you are nationalism in america because if you need to fight for america you will do it.t

Simon Bolivar Latin America Revolution

Simon bolivar was bornin caracas venezuela on july 24 1783. His parents died when he was a child and he inherited a fortune. As a young man, he traveled in Europe. As he returned to Venezuela, Bolivar joined the group of patriots that seized Caracas in 1810 and proclaimed independence from Spain.

He went to Great Britain in search of aid, but could get only a promise of British neutrality. When he returned to Venezuela, and took command of a patriot army, he recaptured Caracas in 1813 from the Spaniards. simon bolivar became very famous because he release six nations venezuela,colombia,panama,ecuador,peru,and bolivia venerate simon bolivar as their liberator from the rule of spain. Bolivar became dictator of Peru. Peru became a separate state, named Bolivia in Bolivar's honor, in 1825. simon bolivar died at the age of 47 on December 17, 1830.


Bolivar became dictator of Peru.