USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

END OF WWI

[SOURCES]
What nation had to drop out of the war because there was a communist revolution in their country?

(A) US

(B) France

(C) Britain

(D) ** Russia

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The Russian revolution, “the ten days that shook the world, ” was a political transformation that set up future revolutionary struggles. The Bolshevik takeover in October, 1917 began revolutionary events in Russia . Under Lenin’s leadership, the Bolsheviks seized internal political power, and withdrew from the war.

Concept note-2: -Learn about the relationship between World War I and Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution.

Concept note-3: -The 1917 communist revolution in the Russian Republic, known as the October Revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution. It resulted in the victory of the Bolsheviks and the creation of Soviet Russia, the predecessor of the Soviet Union.

Concept note-4: -What started in 1917 Russia, became a global revolution, taking root in countries as far-flung as China and Korea to Kenya and Sudan to Cuba and Nicaragua. Communism launched from Lenin’s October Revolution and spread to China with Mao Zedong’s rise to power and to Cuba, with Fidel Castro’s takeover.