7.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl7KVg8TOs0&list=PLEHRHjICEfDXpIjArszCIqDxXGHApX6WY

Ottoman Reforms:

Ottoman empire, despite severe challenges and defeats still existed with relatively large territories.

Nationalism struck the Ottoman empire, and the young Turks had bunch of reforms.

reform:

  1. Secularization (no religion policy) of laws and schools
  2. political elections
  3. Turkish language

Yet, these changes mainly benefitted ethnically Turkish people. So, non-Turkish people in the empire resisted by using their own nationalism that broke the empire into chanks.

Russian Revolution:

Complicated topic, but in a nutshell working class overthrew the tsar and established USSR.

Key vocabs:

Bolsheviks, Mensheviks

If you want to know in dephs(sry I couldn’t spell that correctly), this video will be super super super super super super helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqbleas1mmo