Tsar nicholas ii

Russia and Europe 1900-1917

By Basil_Omori

  • Expansion in Heavy Industry

    • Railway system doubled
    • Trans-Serbian railway
    • Money linked to the Gold Standard, attract French Investors

  • Franco-Russian Alliance

    • Improved Franco-Russian relations
    • Encourage Germany to deter AH agression
    • Ger. feels surrounded and develops the Schlieffen plan
    • Europe divides in half and conflict becomes more likely to go to war

  • Hauge Peace Conference

    Tsar encourages other countries to disarm, they do not

  • Russian occupation of Manchuria

    Russian troops occupy Manchuria (NE China), and claim 400,000 square miles of Chinese territory

  • Japanese Attack on Port Arthur

  • Battle of Mukden

    Force Russia to flee from Manchuria (routed the Russian army)

  • Battle of Tsushima Strait

    Japanese annihilate the Russian fleet

  • Treaty of Portsmouth, New Hampshire

    Marked the end of the war
    Japan gets Port Arthur, Southern Manchuria, Southern Sakhalin
    Korea recognised as being in Japan's sphere of influence

  • 1905 Revolution

    Tsar granted Russia's first ever parliament

  • Russian-Anglo Entente

    Eventually became Triple Entente, led to more security for Russia

  • Bosnia Crisis

    Izvolsky makes agreement with AH, Rus. would accept the annexing of Bosnia and Herzegovina if they allowed Russian warships access to the Mediterranean.
    They annexed it without giving access to the straits.

  • Germany develops relations with the Ottoman Empire

  • BL attacks the Ottoman Empire

    Takes European territory

  • Creation of the Balkan League

    Serbs and Bulgarians create to block AH ambitions.
    Montenegro and Green join too.

  • Peace Conference for Balkan Wars

    Bulgaria defeated in Balkan Wars, peace conference to ensure the violence didn't escalate, led to territory increase for Serbia so AH feared for her empire

  • Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia (WW1 starts)

  • July Crisis

    Economic and Military progress of Russia encouraged Ger. to move the Schlieffen plan forward from 1917 to 1914.

  • Russia Mobilises Early

    Early mobilisation meant Germany had to fight on 2 unwinnable fronts.
    Russia struggled to provided enough weapons and munitions.
    1.7 million dead and 1.5 million in prisoner of war camps

  • Provisional Government Introduction

  • Total War overwhelms Russia

    Issues w/ food supply and transportation.

  • Tsar Nicholas II Abdicates