2. P P T ! I love ppt days! Almost as much as I love bacon…is that awkward?

3. Learning Targets 1.Why RUS fails at life in the 1900s 2.How WWI exposes RUS weaknesses 3.Lenin & the Bolshevik Revolution 4.The end of RUS in WWI REMINDER: Keep working on your WWI trench warfare packet. WWI TEST NEXT WEEK!

4. Probs in RUS during WWI There’s a lot of ‘em!

5. WWI = BAD FOR RUS: Exposed RUS’s weaknesses –Lacked good RR/roads –Supplies cut off by A/H & Ottoman Empire –Poorly trained men/equip –1.7 mil killed –5 mil wounded –2 mil civilians dead Everyone tired of Suffering! Nick didn’t do anything Even the army joins the riot! Uuuugggg! Look at Me… I’m so mad ! (add growl?) Rus Worker

6. LENIN & THE BOLSHEVIKS Socialists emerge! –Bolsheviks = radical socialists –Czar Nick abdicates throne, He & Fam killed by Bolsheviks. - Anastasia alive? Provisional Government formed. –P. G. overthrown too! –Bolshevik Revolution Lenin leads –Brought from Switz by Germans! –Wants land reforms, peace, & factories run by wkrs –Lenin develops his own form of communism. “I want peace, Land, & bread for everyone!”

8. RUS LEAVES WWI Peace treaty signed with C.P. –Brest-Litsovsk Treaty –Lenin & GER are BFFs Rus loses lg amount of land by leaving –Finland, Pol, Belarus, Ukraine, Baltic –High reparations too! Civil War breaks out in RUS –Comms (Reds) vs. opponents (Whites) –Lenin vs. Socialist Assembly Lasts 3 years! “Red Terror” Reds win by 1922 Renamed it the “Soviet Union”

9. Footage of the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION!

11. CLICKERS!! LET’S SEE WHAT YOU KNOW!!

12. 1. Which country fought in WWI and then fought itself? 1.Great Britain 2.France 3.Russia 4.The US

13. 3. When did Russia get out of WWI? 1.1916 2.1917 3.1918 4.1922

14. 4. What did Lenin want for Russia? 1.Joy, Tears, & Peanut butter 2.War, Revolution, and Equality 3.Peace, Land, & Bread 4.Land, Equality, & food

15. 4. _____ was taken out of power and ____ took control of RUS during the October Revolution or Bolshevik Revolution. 1.Lenin, Alex III 2.Provisional Gov., Lenin 3.Stalin, Alex II 4.Nick III, Seyring

16. 5. Petrograd was a new name for… 1.Stalingrad 2.St. Petersburg 3.Moscow 4.Military weapons

17. 6. Within the Petrograd Soviet (council) of Workers and Soldiers’ Deputies, which was the more radical socialists? 1.Bolsheviks 2.Mensheviks 3.Marxists 4.Communists

18. 7. Who did Vladimir Lenin get his political philosophy from? 1.Alexander II 2.Josef Stalin 3.Karl Marx 4.Otto von Bismarck

19. 8. T or False: Lenin thought Marxism would be a perfect fit for the economic characteristics found within Russia at the time 1.true 2.False

20. 9. Lenin’s adaptation of Marxism became what we know today as… 1. Socialism 2. Communism 3. Leninism 4. Ringoism

21. 10. Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of Russia during WWI? 1.Russia suffered massive casualties 2.Russia had a well-equipped army 3.Russia lacked railroads for moving troops and supplies 4.Reinforcements could not reach Russia from the Allies, because the Ottomans were in the way

22. 11. True or False: Nicholas II was forced to abdicate (leave the thrown) when his army joined the rioters. 1.True 2.False