falling leaders: shown up by japan
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Falling Leaders: Shown up by JapanTsar Nicolas II: Romanov Dynasty (Paris Hilton)
• Lived off his families name—Romanov’s ruled for 100s of years
• Fought in the Russo- Japanese war---tried to stop Japan from taking Korea and heading towards Manchuria
• Losses the War and Losses the respect of his people
• New Intellectual group known as the “SOVIETS” start talk of revolution
Dowager Cixi : Qing Dynasty• Encouraged secret societies• Encouraged the Boxer
Rebellion—get rid of foreign influence
• The West and Japan did not allow this –Captured Beijing
• Chinese students lost respect for leaders and were convicted revolution must happen
Revolution:The Rise of New leaders
Kerensky: Provisional Leader
• Kerensky- member of the Socialists Revolutionaries becomes the Provisional Government leader.
• Kerensky decides to stay in WWI
• Russia suffers from most devastating losses of the war– 1,650,000 killed– 3,850,000 wounded– 2,410,000 missing
Sun Yat-sen: Nationalist Leader
• New government needed to follow ideas similar to the west
1. China must end foreign control—control itself
2. give democratic freedom to the people
3. Make sure all people in China Benefit from a strong and secure economy
• Problem with Sun Yixian– He lacked political and military authority– The country was very large and hard to
control and influence– Military Leader Yuan Shikai betrayed
Sun.
Conflicting Ideas on WWI: Leads Civil War
Lenin: Anti-War Campaign• Great October Revolution, October
25, 1917- Trotsky (leader of the Red Army) takes most of Petrograd overthrows provisional gov’t
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk –gives up ¼ of Russia to Germany to get out of war
• Humiliating terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Civil war between “Reds” (Bolsheviks) and “Whites” (anti-communists—and supported by USA)
• won by Lenin and Bolsheviks in 1922 REDS
Mao• China helps to fight down Germany
hopes --Allies win they will get back territory lost
• Treaty of Versailles gives the lost land to JAPAN!!
• MAY 4th Movement:– Over 3,000 people protest over the news
of the Treaty of Versailles– Loose trust in a democratic system
• Mao creates a Communist Party Based off the ideas of Lenin
• Lenin send military advisors to China to help Mao.
• Civil War Breaks out between Chanig Kiashek and Mao (USA support Chaing)
• Mao Wins!
The Rise of a Strong Communist Party and Economy
Lenin: NEP Plan and Soviet Union• Puts in place small version of
Capitalism• Peasants sell Crops and make a
small profit• Government controls major
industries, banks and means of communication
• After NEP success, Lenin introduces the classless society
• Creates the USSR: Lenin organizes Russia into several different Republics- ALL UNDER A CENTERAL GOVERNMENT
Mao• Once in control of China,
Mao sets up a Communist Party much like Stalin and Lenin
• Sets up Collective Farms• Creates a Little Red Army-
young children taught in school to follow the Communist ways.
Life After WWI
Technology Changes
• New Inventions are created– Automobiles – Planes– Radio– Film/ Movies
• How do you think these inventions changed the world?
Composers change their tune:
• Moved away from traditional style
• JAZZ is introduced in the United States– showed freedom of a
new generation– New Dances introduces:
• Charlston, and Black Bottom, Jitter Bug/Swing
Social Patterns Change• New Individual
Freedoms Emerge• Women go from
restrictive clothing to more loose fitting
• Why do you think that is?
• What other changes can you predict happened?
Artists, change their tone:Art Rebels: • Move away from traditional
Art-• Begin to distort and exaggerate
their art • Surrealism: dream like qualities• The focus was to show inner
emotion rather than realistic representation.
• Why do you suppose art changed after WWI?
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