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The Great Northern War
It was a war between Russia Sweden and Norway. Sweden and Norway were feared that Russia was trying to expand, but Russia wasn't going to expand. -
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Decembrist Revolt
Was a uprising that involved people that have a military background. It started after Alexander I was assassinated and when NIcholas I was going to become the knew Czar. The people thought that Alexander's brother Constantine should become the Czar -
Czar Alexander II emancipates the Serfs
The serfs were emancipated after 6 years of trying to get them freed. After the serfs were freed the serfs in order to have land is to have it for 50 years. Most of the serfs crops went to the Czar -
Assassination of Alexander II
Ignacy Hryniewiecki assassinated ALexander II. Two bombs were detonated but the last one is the one that killed Alexander. There was a third bomb but it wasn't detonated at all. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloocy Sunday was a massacre that happened from a peaceful protest. Over 200 thousand protestors went to the Czar's palace. The Czar told the soldiers to open fire and 100 dead, over 3000 wounded -
Russo-Japanese War
Russia and Japanese were fighting because the japanese navy attacked the russian eastern fleet. Russia had a port on the Pacific ocean. Japan won this war. -
The Revolution of 1905
Employees wanted to form unions but the managers wouldn't let them so they all went on strike. Czar stayed in power, the other people were defeated. -
Russia's involvemment in World War I
Russia was involoved in World War I when it started because the people were rallying around NIcholas I who was Czar at the time. All the people didn't want to go to war but it happened anyways -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne
He abdicated the throne because people were demanding that he did. He had no training on how to rule and being a Czar. Workers went on strike just to demand that Nicolas would abdicate the throne and eventually he did. -
The March Revolution
The revolution was about autocracy which created the soviet union. Members of Imperial Parliament assumed that they had control of the country. Nicholas also decided that the duma was going to no longer meet.
