Joseph Stalin and Totalitarianism

he used totalitarianism to rule the soviot union by forcing them to fight, giving one guy a gun and the other guy ammo, and if they ran away or tryed to escape, they would be shot and killed.....

Film Lesson: Doctor Zhivago

some of the reasons why the revolution happened was casue the russians didnt like the way they had to be living there life and the way they were living wasnt good and wasnt free and how they wanted it. the revolution began because they wanted to live in freedom and at that time, they werent. when we went badck to moscow he seened that things hav changed cause of the revoolution and everything was different

The Opium Wars

It was called the opium war because the war started over the english sell drugs to chinese citizens, and the chinese didnt like it and went to war with them but ended up loosing so the english still sold drugs. the english won because they were mot technoligcaly advanced then the chinese.

"The White Man's Burden"

The white mans burden is poem about hoe white men are the domonant ones and how there better than everyone els. its basicly a racial poem about white people and how there better. i dont really agree with it cause its saying that the white man was the domant ones when everyone els out in some efford too and basicly the poem is just saying that white people should get all the credid when they werent the only ones doing the work. we mite still be living the white mans burden considering white people that think there the domonat ones and saying that they did everything and other people did nothing. hence, people being racicst against other types of people, and its not just white poeple that can be racist, it can be spanish,black, or asian too, who are racist agians t any other religion or race other than there own. its kinda proven that white people are the domonat race, with governmant and technological advances.

The scramble for Africa

One of the main european countries were the british. They were looking to take over and also find the reason for the nial river and why it flowed up north and not down like the rest of the rivers. the wound up finding the source and the river thats at the very start of it wich they named Lake Victoria after there queen. They were able to conqure africa so easly because of the technological advances that they had over the africans.

Film Lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

Some hardship that europeans faces when they entered africa was the natives that lived there and also how large of a scale africa is, and trying to take over africa seems impoosible because of that. They could never find the source of the nial river bedcause if they tryied, theyd get attacked by tribes, aligators, and even bugs. another big obstical they faced was lions and tigers, wich made it phisicly impossible to take over or even explor the nial river or any other part of africa. Some of the advances that europeans had over the africans was that they had guns and medicine and didnt do to much close combat wich kept them alive. they were hen able to capture africa a little easyer cause they new its weakness andfigured out how to concor this big land called africa.

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Matthew Perry conviced the japanese into signing the trade treaty by sialing into japans capital Tokyo with a shit with the sails down to show there technological advances, they were shocked. then in 1854, japabn signed the treaty to allow trade. what he had that impressed them was a sail with no sails, tricking then into thinking that they were more technologicaly advanced. and with the trade open, there economy changed cause they were able to get alot more stuff for use casue of the trade.