If you were assigned one of these revolutions: Russian/Chinese/Iranian/Cuban, you will research it (look for videos and other materials) and then you will organize the following information:

-> Main opposing groups involved and the objective(s) of each.

-> Three main leaders

-> Three main results

-> Two effects on Human Rights

-> Two effects on the Economy

TITLE: Revolution and year.
IMAGE: A very good image (iconic image) about that revolution.
Don't forget to include the name of your couple in the end!

Revolutions 2 

If you were assigned one of the following: Fall of the Berlin Wall / Singing Revolution / Orange Revolution / Cedar Revolution / Velvet Revolution / Solidarnosc Movement / Carnation Revolution, you will research about it (look for videos and other materials) and then:

-> Select a picture from the internet that represents that revolution. Post it.

-> Write down (with your own words)

NAME OF THE EVENT / Where? / When? / What happened? (30 words maximum) / Results (30 words max) / Why is it considered a peaceful revolution? (30 words max) / What can we learn from it? (no word limit)
TITLE: NAME OF THE REVOLUTION AND YEAR

REMEMBER: Sources at the end are a MUST!

Encouraged by the new freedom of debate and criticism, a rising tide of unrest and discontent in Hungary broke out into active fighting.

Rebels won the first phase of the revolution.

On November 1, 1956,  Imre Nagy declared Hungarian neutrality and appealed to the United Nationsfor support, but Western powers were reluctant to risk a global confrontation. 

On November 4 the Soviet Union invaded Hungary to stop the revolution.

Nagy tried to restore peace and asked the Soviets to withdraw their troops. The Soviets did so, but Nagy then tried to push the Hungarian revolt forward by abolishing one-party rule. He also announced that Hungary was withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact (the Soviet bloc’s equivalent of NATO).

Nagy was executed for treason in 1958.

Thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country.

 Voice of America radio broadcasts and speeches by President Dwight D. Eisenhowerand Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had recently suggested that the United States supported the “liberation” of “captive peoples” in communist nations.

A&E Television Networks. (2009, November 24). Soviets put a brutal end to Hungarian revolution. History.com. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-put-brutal-end-to-hungarian-revolution.

 

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1917 - 1923

 

-> Main opposing groups involved and the objective(s) of each.

The Red Army which were the Bolsheviks and the White Army which were the anti-Bolsheviks.

 

-> Three main leaders

Joseph Stalin, Vladmir Lenin, Tsar Nicholas II

 

-> Three main results

The establishment of the Soviet Union, Communism, and removing the monarchy.

 

-> Two effects on Human Rights

All this lead to more freedom in people having a say in the government, and there was obviously some more peace

 

-> Two effects on the Economy

The economic growth fell by a lot and wages were so low that some people took action.

 

 

APA References

This revolution is considered peaceful, since they decided to use words, instead of weapons and violence. In fact that's why it got that name. In 1990 the first democratic elections were held.

From this revolution we can learn that it is not necessary to use violence to achieve something, and that words are much more important.

Kopsa, A. (2019, November 16). Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution Started 30 Years Ago—But It Was Decades in the Making. Time. https://time.com/5730106/velvet-revolution-history/

About 2 million people joined hands to make a continuous hand chain, across three countries Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, to protest for independence against the Soviet Union, also while singing.

This resulted in the Independence of the three countries while also motivating other countries to do so, and in this time 12 other countries indepezised from the Soviet Union, and eventually leading to the fall of the Soviet Union, in 1991.

 It's considered a peaceful revolution as the president of the soviets implemented a policy called glasnost, meaning that they could protest calmly without the government interrupting, which lead to no deaths or gunshots in this protest.

We learned from it that there is no need of violence if everything is treated correctly and calmly for an independence to happen. 

Canal de Estudios Sociales del Sr.Beat, 8 June 2019, ¨The Singing Revolution Explained¨ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz44Q9_34-4