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October 1917. Lenin's "Call to Power'" was meant to mobilize Russians to take over power from Alexander Kerenski's Provisional Government.

This is an oil on canvas painting called The Conquerors of the Bastille before the Hotel de Ville by a French artist named Delaroche Hippolyte. This painting was created in 1789 when people were on the verge of protests and rebellions of the…

This source is helpful as it provides evidence that the economy was going through various changes and this source in particular, discusses about the Mercantile System. This economic theory and practice was dominant in modernized parts of Europe…

The painting shows the aftermath of World War I. There are smoke in the background, corpses on the ground, and a long line of wounded men walking at dawn. If you look closely there are soldiers wearing different uniforms lending on each other and…

A picture taken after World War I. Captain Paget MC and Second Lieutenant Barry MC of the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, reading full details of the armistice with Germany. They all crowd around the one reading the armistice. All military operations…

A newspaper article about the end of World War I. The armistice was signed, which stated the end of the war. Berlin seized meaning that Germany lost the war. Ousted Kaiser flees to Holland means that the King of Germany is no long in power.

This source is an address to the people of Berlin made by Willy Brandt on August 18th, 1961 and his opinion of the creation of the Berlin Wall. In his address, he clearly states that this wall was a “violation of human rights” and that now more than…

This political cartoon is depicting Walter Ulbricht, the First Secretary of the East German Communist Party who was one of the people who ordered the Berlin Wall to be constructed. In this cartoon, Lang draws Ulbricht as a giant sitting on Berlin. He…

In this cartoon, Lang represents the Soviet Union as an ogre-representing communism. Capitalism is represented through a caricature of President Kennedy who is waving a warning and cautionary finger at the ogre who is biting his lower leg labeled…