Week 2 Day 1

Mr. Rick realizes that we haven't been taught any material from class 1 and 2 of last week, so he has to rush everything this class.

1. So here Mr. Rick talking about the class material...

2. History is made up of Causal Relationships, where everything is made up of cause and effect. If you do something, there would be consequences.

Before in the 1870s, there was no Germany, only a group of states that speak the same language. These are called the Prussian States. France and England was in war for a very long time, as you can see it was going on during Henry VIII until these 1870s. Since these sates were having war, and then the states that were going to be Germany won the war, they took 2 of the states.

Since countries like Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and Netherlands were colonizing the world, the newly made country Germany wanted to do so too. Britain had the biggest Empire with the biggest Navy. Since the empire is so big, they need a more cheaper and efficient way to do things, so they build the HMS Dreadnoughts. (1 is worth 10 Destroyers, so it is more cheap) Germany sees this, they want to copy too! So then they make some too. France sees this, and it looks like danger......

How World War I started, there was a thing called the Domino Effect. It was like the Causal Relationships that are force pushing each other.

Before the war, there was these things called the Triple Alliance. This was made in the 1870s just from the Prussian War and consists of Italy, Austria - Hungary and Germany. These countries all surround France (which apparently hates everyone I guess), so in case if France makes trouble they can smash them. And there were these called the Triple Entente. It consists of Russia, France and Britain and in case Germany makes trouble, they can crush them.

So then, you all know the timeline for the World War I...
And because of that, it was the Domino Effect, because everyone blames on each other.

3. Now here is the LdL for today. Only one from last class because we don't have enough time and the lecture for catching up on 3 classes is very long...

Tomorrow there will be 2 LdLs, the one for this class and the next class.