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Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was the first great war of the 20th century. The Russians sought a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean, for their navy and trade.Port Arthur would be operational all year. From the end of the First Sino-Japanese War in 1903, negotiations between Russia and Japan had proved impractical. Japan chose war to gain dominance in Korea. -
Bloody Sunday
Father Gapon and thousands of men, women, and children marched to the capital to peacefully protest. The soldiers opened fire on them. hundreds were dead and many were injured. -
Revolution of 1905
The 1905 Russian Revolution was a wave of mass political areas of the Russian Empire. Some of it was directed against the government. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest. -
Russia Joins World War 1
In 1914 the Russian government considered Germany to be a threat to its territory. This caused Germany to form the Triple Alliance.The German Army sent reinforcements to help their allies and gradually the Russians were pushed back. The Russian Army had lost almost a million men in 1916. -
Grigory Rasputin
He failed to become a monk, Rasputin became a wanderer and eventually entered the court of Czar Nicholas II because of his alleged healing powers. -
February Revolution, 1917
The February Revolution of 1917 was one of two Revolutions in 1917. The revolution was provoked not only by Russian military failures during the First World War, but also by the way the country was being run on the Home Front by Tsar, and the economic challenges Russia faced fighting a war. -
The Abdication of the Tsar
He saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to economic and military collapse. Under his rule, Russia was defeated in the Russo-Japanese War, including the almost total wipeout of the Russian fleet at the Battle of Tsushima. -
November Revolution, 1917
In November 1917 Russia got the world's first communist government.The telephone and telegraph buildings were taken over, as were the power stations. Bridges were captured. So were the railway stations.Lenin had to find the leaders of the Provisional Government and arrest them. He also had to get the support of the other political parties that existed in Petrograd then. -
Russia Ends its involvment in World War 1
World War One had a big impact on Russia, They lost Millions of troops compared to all the other countries. The Death and injured was over 10 million! -
The Death of the Romanovs
The Romanov family was murdered in1918. After his abdication in 1917, Nicholas and his family had been arrested. As the civil war developed, They were then killed. -
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a war in the former Russian Empire fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the White Army. The results of the civil war were Huge, An estimated total number of men killed in the Civil War was 300,000, 125,000 in the Red Army, and 175,500 in the White army. -
Formation of the USSR
The Soviet Union was ruled by the Communist Party. It was Set up after the Bolsheviks won the Russia Civil War. -
Lenins death
He was poisoned, shot and thrown of a bridge but that didnt kill him. What killed him was the cold of mother Nature.The assassination attempt made the Bolsheviks mad.
