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The campaign reduced French and allied forces to less than 2% of their normal power.
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Both Russia and Japan wanted to enlarge their power and influence in countries that China had controlled. Japan won the war and gained control over Korea.
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By the end of the spring of 1917 the Romannovs were no longer incharge of Russia. By the end of 1917 the Bolsheviks had taken power in major cities of Russia.
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Russia’s Stalin signs a non-aggression pact with Hitler’s Nazi Germany. He did it to keep Hitler away from Russia.
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The Soviets dominated all of eastern Europe and they developed nuclear weapons.
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Russia wanted to get rid of Musim traditions and make Afghanistan more westernized.
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Russia tried to seize control of the mountaious area of Chechnya but Chechen raids on the flat lands set back Russia.
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The war escalated because both countries accused one another of military build up near Abkhazia and South Ossetia. On March 6, 2008, Russia said it would not be a part of the CIS, economic sanctions on Abkhazia.
