Russian Rev. Summary

Food prices skyrocketing and the rations
Women’s march to Petrograd demanding bread, almost similar to the Women’s March to Versailles during the French Revolution
The tsarist regime untrusting to the industrialists.
Nicholas II’s wife and the involvement of Rasputin in politics.
The army turning against Nicholas II after being sent to put down the rebellion.
The result? The tsar was [...]

Easter Rebellion Notes

The Irish problem never wet away. In fact there were three major aggravations:

The British procrastinated on est. Home Rule
Irish Parliamentary part was weakening
Growth of the Sinn Fein (revolutionaries)

If the leader of the Irish Parliamentary party (Mr. Redmond) was a little stronger and younger, he would have gotten England to give a Home Rule concession to [...]

The Peace Settlement (Pgs 733-End Ch 25)

January 1919 was when the delegates of the victorious allies gathered at Paris to draw up the peace settlement.
The war started with national selfish interests and ended with idealistic principles.
When the Bolsheviks and Lenin overtook the Russian government, they unveiled a slew of secret treaties. The treaties showed that nations primarily went to war for [...]