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The Great Northern War
The great Northern War was also called the Second Northern War. It was a military conflict with Russia, Denmark, Norway, and Saxont-Poland challinging Swedon. This toolk place around the Baltic Sea. Sweden expanded around the Baltic sea, kicking out these other countries. the strong king of Poland and elector of Saxony, attacked Livonia, while Frederick IV, marched into Schleswig and Holstein. Peter the Great leid siege to Narva. Charles XII of Sweden responded first by concentrating his ... -
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forces against Denmark. Landing a few miles from Conpenhagen, he made Frederick to get out from the antiSedish alliance and to sign the Treaty of Traventhal, which restored the status quo. Charles next confronted the Russians, attacking them at Narva. He then turned against the Poles and the Saxons, controoling Couurlsnd and Forcing Augustus to retreat into Poland. Determined to depose Augustus, Charles spent six years fighting him. Only after the Swedish people invaded Saxony, -
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However Augustus got his crown back and brok his Russian alliance. Meanwhile, the Russians had used this time to reorganize there army and to move them sleves to the eastern Baltic coast. Peter the great defeted Charls's at Lesnaya and the defeated the main Swedish army at the Battle of Poitava. Charles retreted to Turkey and convinced the Turks to declae war on Russia. The Turks withdrew from the war. Meanwhile the Anti Swedish coalition, which had came back after the Battle of Poltava, began.. -
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.. To stop the Swedish prossessions along the Baltic coast. A long while later Charles had no children left. the throne went to his sister and her husband. They decided to give the other countries there land back. -
The Decembrist Revolt
The Decembrist Revolt was when a small group of nobles and army officers tried to overthrow the czar's government. These Nobles and army officers hoped to set up a constitutional monarchy. Czar Nicholas was able to stop the uprising quickly and easily. Nicholas had excuted five of the leaders and exiled many more to Siberia. Later on, the men that were apart of this uprising were later known as heroes to later generations of revolutionaries. -
The March Revolution
The main cause was because there was a demand for expanded representation as well as economic concerns. In the central and eastern part of the continent, generally gocerned by more autocratic regimes. Nationalism was also a driving force in the recolutionary ourbreaks. -
Czar Alexander II Emancipates the Serfs
Nicholas the I was succeeded in 1855 by Alexander II. Alexander II introduced a series of reforms. The most important one was the emancipation of the serfs. Giving liberty to tens of millions of people. Another reform introduced self-governing local assemblies elected by the people. -
The Russo-Japanese War
It began when the main Japanese fleet had a suprise attack and took over the Russian naval base at Port Arthur. The Japanese landed an army in Korea that quickly overran that country. In May a second Japanese army landed on the Liaotung Peninsula, and on May 26 in cut off the Port Arthur garrison from the main body of Russian forces in Manchuria. The Japanese then pushed northward, and the Russian army fell back to Mukden after getting defeted at other battles. In October the Russian army... -
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changed back to being an offiance army. The final battle of the land war was fought at Mukden in late Febuary and earlt March. Between the 330,000 Russian men and the 270,000 Japanese men. After long fighting and many deaths, The russians commander broke up the fighting. The Japanese had took over that eara. The Treaty Of Portsmouth finnaly astablished everything. Japan got Liaotung Peninsula and the South Manchurian railroad. They also got half of Sakhain Island.Russia agreed to retrete out of. -
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Which was given to China.. This trete also confurmed Japan's controol of Korea. Within two months of the treaty's singing,a revolution of the Russian tzar, Nicholas II, issued on october. -
Bloody Sunday
The massacre took place in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was marking the beginning of the violent phase of the Russian revolution. In the end of the 19 centry, industrial workers had began to organize. The Assembly of Russian Workingmen broke out in St. Petersburg. These workers moveid into the city holding icons of Nicholas II. The police tried to stop this march, he then ordered for them to fire apon the marching men. More than 100 marchers were killed, and severaly hundred were wonded. -
The Revolution of 1905
It was an uprising that the people were trying to convinc Czar Nicholas II to change the Russion government from an autocracy into a constitional monarchy. Before this dicerse social groups demonstrated their discontent with the russian government. These efforts was what started Bloody sunday, when they marched into St. Petersburg. This revolt started to spred. The uprising failed to replace the Czar autocracy with a democratic republic or even to convoke a constituent assembly. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne
Riots and strikes erupt in Petrograd, the russian capital. Ferious crouds protest the war and the shortae of food. The were shouting "Bread and Peace!" When this started to spreed, the government sent troops to regain controol. Many of the soldjers that were sent refused to fire on the crowds, but hundreds of them joined the protesters. News of these events in Potrograd have quickly spred by telegraph. Only a week later Czar Nicholas gave up his throne. -
World War I (Russian Involvement)
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The Assassination of Alexander II
The politically minded and terrorist wing took the name Narodnaya Volya. Which stood for "peoples wil" He made Alexander II his target. After several unsexfull atempts he got aim on March 1 1881 whtn the Czar was fatally wounded by a bomb while driving through the capital. All the main leders of the group were caught by the polich and five of them were hung.
