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The Womans march on versailles happened because of starving families demanding food. They marched towards versailles and the king agreed to see them. He promised to distribute bread to the crowd. cite
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Napoleon Bonaparte started his rule in France after the execution of Louis XVI. During the French revolution the people revolted because the king wasn't taking care of his people. He escaped from Paris and the people followed him and killed him. Years later he was elected as the new ruler of France. Cite
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When Napoleon was 26 years old, a government official asked Napoleon if he would defend the capital. Napoleon and his men gunned down the thousands of royalists rebels with cannon fire. Cite
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I -
Napoleon turns France from a republic to an empire/ dictatorship by overthrowing the government. Cite
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I -
Napoleon sold the Louisiana territory to the usa for 15 million dollars or 18 dollars per square mile in 1803. France needed money at the time. Cite
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We start out with Napoleon conquering country after country around him from 1804 to 1805. With this army he battles the battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and suffers a loss. Then he sends an army to Portugal which triggers the peninsula war in 1808. Napoleon then suffers a catastrophic loss of 400,000 men in 1812. Then there is a defeat in in Leipzig in 1813. Lastly his final defeat in Waterloo in 1815. Cite
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Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France, at Notre Dame de Paris. Apparently he was so eager he took the crown out of Pope Pius VII hands himself and crowned himself. Cite
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In the 1860s the minister of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck provoked 3 wars. To win these he aligned smaller German states to defeat France. There-fore, unifying Germany, Cite
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Karl Marxism co-writes his first book on communism. He encourages the working class to revolt. He popularized the idea of communism. Cite
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Otto von Bismarck served as the prime minister of Prussia. He was the founder and first chancellor of the German empire. Cite
https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/otto-von-bismarck-unification-germany-unify-biography-facts-how-prussian-politician/ -
WW1 was a tragic event in history that started over the murder of the duke of Austria-Hungary. Cite
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An Ottoman empire government funded terrorist group encourages their members to murder the duke on his vacation in a country they are trying to control and heavily taxing them. Cite
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history -
This declare of war starts a huge world wide issue. Each part of the world gets in. Cite
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Germany invades Luxembourg and Belgium. France invades Alsace. British forces arrive in France. Nations allied against Germany were eventually to include Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia, Romania, Greece, France, Belgium, United States, Canada, Serbia, India, Portugal, Montenegro, and Poland. The central powers consisted of Germany, Austria-hungary, the ottoman empire, Bulgaria and they're colonies. -
The United States declares war on Germany in 1917. We entered the war because germanys submarine attacks on passenger Cruze ships with American citizens on it. Admittedly this ship most likely was carrying weapons for the war. Cite
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Vladimir seizes power of Russia and converts the government to the first communist governments. Cite
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Germany and allied nations sign the treaty of Versailles ending the war. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history
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