Monday, November 15, 2004
- 8:14 pm
after like so long i was finally able to go to the park for soccer - and so few people came. uncle was there, rusell was there, colin was there and joshua (who i like to call nakata da) and so we played three on two. it was uncle harbhajan rusell and nakata against colin and i, and we played till we were up 4-2, so we let em come back to 4-4 and i went and made it 5-4 - ha :) so i told colin to switch sides and now its nakata (whos what - 10?) and me, against colin rusell and uncle - then uncle sees these three girls - grace rachel and mansheel? who i just remember from panjabi class with panje last time who recognised me - and haha she used to be what? seven? now shes like so much bigger. so anyway they play, and grace (who i remember cos she got the same name as my chem teacher) joins us and the other two join the other side. eventually she swops with rachel to join us - and rachel scores FIVE times. five times. i told her to come back next week, along with the other two who did really well too. and russell scored TWICE. AMAZING. i dont think hes ever scored before. i just played as usual and scored some goals though i cant remember how much, and rachel was really good- she latched on to every ball i sent through and scored most of the time, and so was mansheel on the other side cos she was everywhere on the pitch, and grace was good too. but then again colin and russell put up quite a show so it all evened out, although i think at some point mansheel was trying to kill me, and colin was too. but nevermind - im still alive :) theyre plenty of fun - i hope they come back next week. haha mansheels funny. she tried to wash her hands in the swimming pool, but the philanderer security guard caught her.
and now once again - if you havent studied start reading - here come the stories of china, germany, and of course, mein mutter russia.
china! revolution to war.
once upon a time, there was a country called china which was full of han dynasty people - but ruled by the evil manchus - qing dynasty people. and they were on a decline! yeay. so the manchus declined and im gonna skip to the GMD, cos the self strengthening movement, the 100 day reform and the imperial reforms sucked. so sun yat sen was the head of the guomindang, who came into power only after they promised yuan shikai presidency- PRIME MINISTER yuan shikai who rose to power because he put down the revolts by the people with his han army. then yuan shikai, the idiot, wanted to become emperor - but he died - YEAY. so it was up to the GMD to unify china by defeating the warlords controlling the land for yuan - so under the advice of the russian commies, they banded together with the CCP and had sex the first united front, and many many children. so now the ccp were in a better position for a takeover bid, could maintain their status as a political party, whilst the GMD could keep in touch with workers and peasants, and received russian military training. so they defeated the warlords (many of whom pledged nominal allegiance to them) when suddenly sun yat sen died (DAMN!) and jiang jie shi, also known by his trendy msn nick, chiang kai shiok, and he conducted the may the fourth coup to purge the poor commies, since they werent needed anymore. but anyway now the GMD had total rule, so they set up roads and railways - but guess what? the govt was inefficient and corrupt, and the GMD was controlled only through the army. ah well. so they defeated the warlords, destroyed commie bases (cos now they retreated lah to the countryside) and protected middle class interests. they also lost touch with the peasants. so now it was all about guerilla warfare- the new in thing. like get with the program jiang, you old fashioned fart - conventional warfares for losers. ah frichen, im bored. on to germany.
GERMANY
weimar republic (1919-1923)[bad years da!]
POLITICAL CHALLENGES
-versailles legacy
*people hated them for agreeing to the terms
-disunity (coalition govt)
-putches and uprisings
*spartacist uprising -revealed their military weaknesses as they were saved by the freikorps
*kapp putsch -saved by workers on strike who hated the anti commies
ECONOMIC CHALLENGES
-versailles legacy
*unlimited indemnity
*no resources to rebuild economy
*govt printed more cash -hyperinflation
*ruhr occupation (their richest industrial area)
recovery years (1924-1929)[under gustav stresseman da!]
ECONOMIC SUCCESSES
-won belgium and frances trust through ending of passive resistance in the ruhr,
promised to resume reparations with unoccupation of ruhr
-issued rentenmark, financially backed currency, to stop inflation
-american assistance plans
*dawes plan (america invests 40 000 000 pounds in germany)
*young plan (reparations reduced to 2 000 000 000 pounds, from 6 billion
-foreign policy successes
*improved relations
*accepted borders
*demilitarised rhineland
WEAKNESSES
-weakness if democratic govt as democracy not fully accepted
-overreliance on outside loans
-small companies unable to compete with big ones
-the great depression
*UNEMPLOYMENT
-emergency powers
NAZI RISE TO POWER
-nazi promises to bring prosperity and employment
*appealed to the people
*overthrow versailles treaty, make germany a great power
-hitlers charisma
-usage of propaganda
*SA men drilling to impress people
*flags, symbols and radio speeches
-death of weimar republic with hitlers appointment as chancellor
SO(l campbell)
-failure of weimar govt
-hitlers charisma
-the great depression
-propoganda/nazi promises led to the nazi rise to power
haha i just realised - seven more visits to this blog and seven thousand people woulda visited it since its creation in february? or late january? who cares.
kal ho naa ho.
anyway,
CONSOLIDATION OF NAZI RULE
-reichstag fire
*hitler took advantage to issue emergency decree, so suspending civil and political rights
-enabling act
*gave hitler complete control over germany
-night of the long knives
*Ernst Rohm and SA upsetting the army, so hitler had its officers killed, so as to win military support
-death of hindenburg - hitler the fuhrer
-one party police state
-appeal of nazi aims (lebensraum)
-propoganda
-hitlers leadership
THE NAZI RUN STATE
political
-one party state, no opposition
-police state
-high ranking jobs given to nazis
-ban on trade unions
education system
-control of curriculum
-control of young minds/youth
-media control (joseph goebbels)
-control over religion/the reich church
ECONOMIC
-creation of jobs
*gain support
*introduced projects for cleaning out slums, etc
*conscription
-industry and economic production
*war profits for german businessmen
-autarky, and a four year plan for self reliance
-racism and anti semitism
RUSSIA
so the russian story starts with revolution (who doesnt love revolution stories? revolucion!)
February 1917
-revolutionaries were just waiting to take control of russia
-the russo japanese war loss
-the 1905 revolution
-failure of the duma
-period of repression and reform under stolypin
-impact of WWI
*taxing on resources, soldiers dying, lack of labour
-tsar put german wife on throne
-rasputin
this basically got rid of the tsar.
so on to the october 1917 revolution to get of the provisional govt.
-problems of democratic reforms
-decision to continue war
-disunity as kornilov tried to take from kerensky (power) but kerensky armed the bolshies to help him. of course they kept the weapons lah.
LENINS RULE
-banning of democratic elections
-absolute rule by decree
-peace treaty with germany
-the secret police (cheka)
-factories under control of elected workers
-non bolshie newspapers banned
CIVIL WAR
reds vs whites
-strategic advantages
-lenins leadership
-war communism
-propoganda
-white disunity
WAR COMMUNISM
-surplus food and grain given to govt
-workers given fixed quota to produce
-strikes banned
-food rationed
-industrial output down
-agricultural sector down
-famine strikes
we got it made
NEW ECONOMIC POLICY
-surplus stock sold at profit
-small factories and retail trade privatised
STALIN
rise to power due to
-position as secretary in party whilst trotsky fought civil war
acht study the rest yourself im tired.
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