- COMPARING REVOLUTIONS -

Who started the

revolution? Who
was the driving
force behind the
revolution?

What were the

motives for the
revolution? What
change did the
people want?

How did the

revolution play
out? How is it
best
characterized?

FRENCH

HAITIAN

RUSSIAN

CUBAN

CHINESE

Third Estate
(Peasants)

Slaves
(Toussaint
LOuverture)

Peasants/Poor
(soldiers)

Fidel Castro
(Peasants)

Mao Zedong
(Peasants)

- high taxes
- lack of
voting rights
- class
inequalities
- abuses of
Louis XIV &
XVI

- brutality of
French
slavery in
Haiti
- the harsh
labor needed
to harvest
sugar cane

- Peace,
land, bread!
- conditions of
WWI
- years of
abuse under
Nicholas II

- guillotine
(Reign of
Terror)
- French
monarchy
replaced with
Republic

- slaves
burned crops
& killed
plantation
owners
- slaves
successfully
gained
freedom

- Nicholas II &
family killed
- Russia drops
out of WWI
- Peasants
successful

- Overthrow
the Batista
dictatorship
- Peasants felt
that
communism
offered a
better
standard of
living
- Castro used
guerrilla
warfare to
topple Batista
- 1st
Communist
country in the
Western
Hemisph.

Impact &
Legacy? Was
the revolution
successful? Were
the goals of the
people met?
What do we
remember most?

- became a
model for
other Revs.
- similar to
American
- Constitution
- Napoleon
comes to
power

- LOuverture
becomes Pres.
- 1st
successful
Rev. in the
Western
Hemisphere
- Haiti is a
Republic

- Lenin &
Communists
come to
power
- Russia
becomes
Soviet Union

- Castro allies
with
Khrushchevs
Soviet Union
& is
communist
today
- Bay of Pigs
Invasion,
Cuban Missile
Crisis