The Russian Revolution

The Russians had a revolution because they were all unhappy. The winter of 1917 was a very cold winter. It was horrible for the Russian people and they were all very hungry but the czar wouldn't do anything about this. Instead he would waste all of his money on sending worthless troops out to fight World War I, while they would just get killed anyway. The Russian people were furious. They thought that they needed a change in their government and all of these events triggered it. The people during that time were all hungry and desperate and they just believed it and voted to keep their country a Communist nation. The leader of the Revolution was Lenin. He was in the Bolshevik group as well as Joseph Stalin. The quote "Peace, land and bread"means that the Russians wanted Peace in the country no wars, land for them to have farms and bread for them to feed their children. They wanted these aspects to have a better Russia and communism promised them that.

World War I

During the late 1800's throughout the early 1900's there were still empires that were formed. Many of the people that were being taken over were very unhappy with that and wanted there own country. The people thought that in one empire they spoke over three different languages, then why would they even be a united country. One major reason why World War I happened was because of Nationalism. Countries spent millions of dollars to help prepare their military. They were trying to prepare themselves to have a very powerfully military. There was one problem about all of this and that was that they didn't have anywhere to use it. This made them start tension and conflict within each other. Militarism was a really important factor in starting the war. What triggered the war though was when the archduke of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian, Austria declared war on Serbia which then cause Russia to join the war on Serbia's side. This was the collapse of the alliance system. This war caused the people of all the nations they belonged to felt pride in the fact that their country was the dominate one.