Manuel's Global Blog

Joseph Stalin and Totalitarianism

2008-01-14T16:21:00.000-08:00

Totalitarianism - is state regulation of nearly every aspect of public behavior. Totalitarian regimes or movements maintain themselves in political power.Joseph Stalin real name was Losif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili and the name that he calls him self means "man of steel". In the year 1922 Stalin was made the secretary general of the communist part. In 1924 Joseph Stalin made himself dictator of the Soviet Union. He wanted to turn the Soviet Union into industrial state. Joseph Stalin used a lot of propaganda and terror to make the Soviet people do his will. In 1928 Joseph Stalin made is five-year plan. The propose ofg the five-year plan was to turn the country in a major industrial power in five years.Stalin forced the peasentsto give up there land and to work on large government operation. Then Stalin began " The Great Purges". Throughout the years 1936- 1937 Stalin signed 40,000 death warrants.By the end of this horror less than 1,000 churches remained out of 20,000 churches.

Film Lesson: Doctor Zhivago

2008-01-11T10:21:00.000-08:00

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 WW1

2008-01-04T10:20:00.000-08:00

World War I was the result of leaders' aggression towards other countries which was supported by the rising nationalism of the European nations. Economic and imperial competition and fear of war prompted military alliances and an arms race, which further escalated the tension contributing to the outbreak of war.

This 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 War

2007-12-17T21:31:00.000-08:00

China believe that they were a independent country so they didn't want to deal with other countries. Britain had something that Chinese people wouldn't resist that is call "opium," Chinese people used to use it as drugs. Britain wanted to deal with China because they wanted China's tea. After a few time Chinese people started to become addicted to opium. China's government started to get angry because opium was destroying their people and the whole country. In order to stop this they didn't want to deal with, The outcome of the war was predictable. The Chinese people lost miserably. China was no match for the British technology and better weapons.

"The White Man's Burden"

2007-12-17T21:26:00.000-08:00

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

2007-12-05T10:26:00.000-08:00

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 everybody wanted 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.

Most of the new things that the Africans were know affect them because they had to gave to the British people some of them lands and they kill some of the people of Africa and separated some of them tribes, also this provided the families separated each one.

Mountains of the Moon

2007-12-03T10:17:00.000-08:00

This was an expedition of some British people that want to knew something about the River Nile, they went to central Africa 2 times, in the first time some of the black people of Africa attacked them because they think they were enemies, so most of the people of British that went there died, the rest of the persons went back to England and prepare a new visit with more people but for that time they thought in new technology for Africa so they will offer something like guns to win or conquests a part of Africa, the lake Victoria changed them name for the British Queen because when the British people went again to Africa they talked a made changes in Africa if the British people gave them new technology like Guns and others thing etc finally they knew about the river Nile and agree in them goals.

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

2007-11-27T10:49:00.000-08:00

Mathew perry was a bully to the Japanese. He knew that he could take them down with his modern technology weapons. The Japanese were so defenseless because all they had were weak military. Japan wasn't very advanced in technology because they have been isolated from the rest of the world for a long time. America saw japan as a good source of reloading supplies like coal and water and food when the U.S ships are sailing. Mathew perry arrived to japan and tried to negotiate to open ports since it was a archipelago country meaning it has many island. The Japanese weren't so much willing to do that. Once the Japanese saw the ships with cannons and rifles and so high tech the Japanese knew they had to do what the Americans wished or not they will be conquered. The Japanese had to sign the treaty to open a port. From there on that opened the minds of the Japanese and they realized they have to catch up with the rest of the world because the isolation that they have been going through had caused them to be so far behind in technology. The Japanese sent their people to study foreign countries in Europe and to America.

Karl Marx and Communism

2007-11-15T14:47:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx was a german but his idea of communism changed the Russian history. he was born as jew, but his family was converted into christianity in order for his father to get a job as a lawyer. Communism was a theory and system of social and political organization that was a major force in world politics mostly during the 20th century. Marx wanted communism to take over the world.

Karl Marx idea for communism was for the poor working man to rise upabove and create a fair equal classless society. He hated the fact thatsome people could be well off while many suffered from poverty.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

2007-11-14T18:04:00.000-08:00

Marx was born in 1818 in German in this place called Prussia. When Karl Marx was a young university student he always liked to drink in bars and to fight a lot but he still managed to study hard. Marx joined this group students who studied the German philosopher, Gerog Hegel. Hegel taught every important idea produces another idea that was the opposite.

Karl Marx was the one and only man who stared the first protest in the industrial revolution with the rich people of that century, that wants the people work double because they changed the clock and the employers did know how many time they work and that was better for the rich boss, Karl Marx was a good point in the industrial revolution and was an important leader for the employers and also was a good philosopher for the history.

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

2007-11-06T17:20:00.000-08:00

Nationalism is beautiful it shows the respect and honor you give for your country. Nationalism is when you give lots of pride to a country and are able to sacrifice for it. It can be your birth country or the country of your parents if they migrated from somewhere else or a country that you just simply want. Nationalism also is when you and your people share the same culture and history of your country and support your people and your country.Nationalism was used to create the nation of Italy because while it destroyed empires it also built nations. Italy was one of the countries form from the crumbling empires. Before this country was created it used to be a kingdom until 1946. After 1946 Italians voted for a republican constitution which included the entire Italian Peninsula.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolution

2007-11-01T17:49:00.000-07:00

Simos Bolivar was called El Libertador (born July 24 of 1783 in Caracas, captaincy general of Venezuela – died December 17 1830, in santa Martha Colombia) was a leader of several Independence movements throughout South America, collectively known as Bolivar`s War. In 1802, he married María Teresa Rodríguez del Toro after a year she died and he went back to Europe, he was the libertador of colombia and he partcipe in some wars in Spain and other parts of the world, he was an good writter, he wrote a few books about his conquisted and about his life, also he participed in the Battle of Boyaca. The country Bolivia is named after Simon Bolivar. After he kicked out the Spaniards in 1824 he made a part in upper Peru a separate state named Bolivia in his honor. Simon Bolivar was an important person in the world and now in the present he had a day to celebrated all he did in the past.

Robespierre and The Reing of Terror

2007-10-03T17:37:00.000-07:00

(6 may 1758 – 28 july 1794) is one of the best-known leaders of the French Revolution. He studied at College of Louis-le-Grand in Paris and became a lawyer. His supporters called him "The Incorruptible"
He was a period of about 10 months during the French revolution when struggles between rival factions led to mutual radicalization which took on a violent character with mass executions by the guillotine, He was the most important dominand leader of the French Revolution.

The French revolution: social causes

2007-09-27T10:11:00.000-07:00

Some of the causes that the French revolution ended was the ended of the regimen of the king Louis XVI, This stared when in 1789, although facing some economic and especially fiscals difficulties, was one of the richest and most powerful nations in Europe further, the masses of most other European powers had less freedom and less chance of arbitrary punishmen. At the same time Louis XVI called Estates -General he himself was generally popular, but the nobility and many of the king's ministers were not. Other causes were: fall the monarchy national convention and the reing of terror directory consulate, another was the storming of the Bastille etc. in 1787 was, at least in theory,an absolute monarchy, an increasingly unpopular form of government at the time.The three Estates of the french revolution were the nobilitys,clergy and the kings. Other important aspect in the french revolution are the thinkers of the Enlightenment, they had many influences in the French revolution about how were the governments in the countries etc.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

2007-09-11T10:26:00.001-07:00

The two theories of the solar system are the heliocentric and the geocentric the word heliocentric is the theory that the sun is at the centre of the universe and the word geocentric mean the opposite of helicentric this theory is that the earth are in the centre of the universe. The theory of heliocentry came first that the theory of geocentric . Galileo was putted in the trial because he came the conflict between reliogion and science and i think he believe in the theory of the heliocentric

Scientific Revolution: Scientific Method

2007-09-11T10:20:00.000-07:00

I think the scientific method is a formula for know about something have a reason and we didn`t what it is and is a process for experimentation that is used to answer questions and explore observations.

Evolution vs. Creation

2007-09-06T10:39:00.001-07:00

I think the evolution is the changed from generation of generation how something have changes in the life and the creation is an art of creation or inspiration to do something for our self

2007-09-06T10:28:00.000-07:00