DO NOW #51 o Select a partner o Sit across from someone o Wait
for instructions
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ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS SHOOT! o There is 50% tax on your winnings.
Please separate your winnings into two equal piles, one of which
will go to me
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ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS SHOOT! o Discuss: o Was the game fair? o
What could have been done so that the losers could get back into
the game? o Should the teacher do something to make the game
fair
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ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS SHOOT! o Discuss: o Was taxing the winners
justified to make everyone equal and thus winners? o Now that
everyone is the same, do we need to keep playing? Do I still need
to supervise?
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CAPITALISM The class struggle is complaints Workers revolt
through responses about how you could have gotten back into the
game A type of economic system that is characterized by private
ownership of property, freedom of private business for profit,
freedom of competition, and freedom of choice by individual
consumers.
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SOCIALISM o Government ownership of industry o The goal to
bring economic equality o Aim a classless society government
providing most of the services to its citizens by collecting high
taxes and then using that money to provide needed services (like
healthcare, education, housing, etc.)
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COMMUNISM o Goal=classless society o Choice to share what you
have? a type of political and social movement where the society
controls the means of and use of production (business), where
property is collectively controlled, and the ownership and use of
productive resources are collectively controlled to benefit
everyone and where equality determines the distribution of the
means of consumption (the goods). It is devoted to spreading to
other countries for worldwide establishment. Private Industry
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Explain what Capitalism, Socialism, and
Communism is.
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REVOLUTIONS IN RUSSIA
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CZARS RESIST CHANGE Alexander III- became ruler in 1881.
Believed in autocracy government in which he had total power.
Anyone who spoke out against him was considered a threat. He used
harsh measurements including 1.censorship on everything written
2.He had secret police 3.Made Russian the only language allowed to
be spoken 4.Targeted the Jewish people and allowed
pogroms-organized violent attacks on Jews.
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RUSSIA INDUSTRIALIZES
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NICHOLAS II Became ruler in 1894. Continued autocracybecause he
did the country is financially going to suffer. Between 1863 and
1900 the number of factories in Russia doubled. Even though they
doubled Russia was still very far behind the rest of Europe.
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NICHOLAS II Nicholas IIs minister person in charge of the
governments finance; tried to change this. He sought out foreign
investors and raised taxes to build up Russias industry. Its going
to work and by 1900 Russia will be the 4 th leading producer of
steel. Russia will build the worlds longest continuous rail line:
the Trans-Siberian Railway
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LEADING TO PROBLEMS With the growth of factories came new
problems.. Working conditions Low wages Child labor No political
power No unions were permitted As a result several revolutionary
movements begin to grow and compete for power.
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MARXIST REVOLUTIONARIES Followed the belief of Karl Marx. They
believed that the workers would overthrow the Czar There would then
be a dictatorship of the proletariat- workers. (The workers would
rule).
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A SPLIT IN MARXISTS Group one were the Mensheviks More moderate
Wanted a broad base of popular support for the revolution Group two
were the Bolsheviks More radical Willing to sacrifice everything
for change The leader was Vladimir Ilyiah Ulyanov; he later changed
his name to Lenin. In the 1900s he will flee to Europe to escape
arrest from the Czar; he will still lead from Europe.
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CRISES AT HOME AND ABROAD
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CRISES THAT LEAD TO THE REVOLUTION These events showed the
Czars weaknesses 1.The Russo-Japanese War 2.Bloody Sunday 1905
3.WWI
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THE MARCH REVOLUTION In March 1917, 5 days of riots took place
due to food & fuel shortages At first soldiers fired on
protesters, later they joined them. Czar Nicholas II was forced to
step down. A year later, revolutionaries executed him and his
family ending three centuries of czarist rule. A provisional
government that was temporary was established and led by Alexander
Kerensky. His support of the war, cost him his support. Soviets
were local councils consisting of workers, peasants and soldiers
and they had influence over the provisional government. Lenin
returned to Petrograd in April 1917, and the Germans believed he
would hurt the Russian war effort.
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THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION By the fall of 1917, Lenin & the
Bolsheviks had control of the Petrograd soviet and support from the
soviets in many other cities. Lenins slogans, Peace, Land, and
Bread & All power to the soviets November 1917, armed factory
workers storm the Winter Palace in Petrograd taking over the
government and arresting leaders of the provisional govt. Lenin
orders all farmland be distributed amongst the peasants. i can haz
peece n land now ?
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THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION Russia signs the peace treaty with
Germany ending Fighting. Russia surrenders a large part of its
territory and many Russians are angry with Lenin and the
Bolsheviks. Opposition groups to the Bolsheviks emerged and civil
war began as a group called the white party challenged for power.
Leon Trotsky, the leader of the Bolshevik Red Army lead them to
victory during the civil from 1918-1920 despite interference from
western nations. 14 million Russians died due to the civil war and
the conditions that followed.
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LENIN RESTORES ORDER World War I and the revolution destroyed
the Russian economy. In March 1921, Lenin temporarily puts aside
his plan for a state controlled economy. Due to his policies and
the peace that followed the civil war, the country slowly recovered
and by 1928 factories were a pre-war levels. Bolsheviks leaders saw
nationalism as a threat and broke Russia up in to different
republics. The Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party.
Communist Party a political party the ideas of Karl Marx & V.I.
Lenin. Lenin established a dictatorship of the Communist Party.
Lenin suffered a stroke in 1922. Joseph Stalin eventually took
control as a dictator and became known for being ruthless. Lenin
writings reflected that he feared Stalin as a dangerous man. In
1924, the Communists created a constitution based on socialist and
democratic principles.
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TOTALITARIANISM
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A GOVERNMENT OF TOTAL CONTROL Totalitarianism government
control over every aspect of public and private life. Police terror
and violence is used to force obedience and crush opposition.
Indoctrination = instruction of govt beliefs to mold peoples minds.
Propaganda & Censorship =biased and incomplete info to sway
public opinions & beliefs. Religious/Ethnic Persecution =
leaders create enemies of the state to blame for problems. Great
Purge a campaign of terror in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, in
which Stalin sought to eliminate all Communist members and other
citizens who threatened his power. When the Great Purge ended in
1938, Stalin had complete control of the Communist Party and that
he was responsible for 8 13 million deaths.
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A GOVERNMENT OF TOTAL CONTROL Command economy system in which
the government made all the decisions. Five-Year plans- plans
outlined by Stalin for the development of the Soviet Unions economy
that had high quotas & goals to increase output. Collective
farms- a large govt controlled farm formed by combining many small
farms The Soviet Union turned into a totalitarian regime and an
industrial and political power under Stalins rule as dictator.
China would also fall under the influence of Karl Marx and become a
totalitarian Communist state as well.
