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The Russo Japanese War
The Russo Japanese War was a disaster for Russia,
Japan was not a strong country at the time and all of Russia thought that they would win the war easily. They were all wrong. Russia lost the war and and was left with humiliation and frusteration. Most of the population did not want to even be in the war in the first place. After the war ended Tsar Nicholas lost some of his support from his people. -
Bloody Sunday
ON Bloody Sunday many unarmed demonstrators gathered outside of the Tsars winter palace protesting and asking for help from thier leader. Instead of recieving what they wanted though the Tsar ordered his troops to open fire on the protesters. In all 130 people died and even more were wounded. This event showed the incompetence of the Tsar and he lost many more of his supporters. -
October Manifesto
The results of Bloody Sunday showed the Tsar that he needed to do somthing to gain some support from his people. The Tsar promised to provide some civil liberties and created a Duma a legislative assembly. The people were happier with this although later on they would see that the Duma had no real power. -
World War I
Russia was not prepared for a world war. There army although large, was very poorly equipted. They did not even have enough guns for all of the soilders. Russia was not doing well in battles. This showed the Tsar was uncapable of organizing a war. The russian population wanted out of the war but the Tsar would not take them out. The tsar grows more and more unpopular. -
The first Revolution
In the past years there have been several stikes and food shortages in the country. Workers were fed up. On March 10 200,000 stikers andseversal women protested. They yelled for an overthrow of the Tsar. Troops were ordered to attack but the army began to turn on the Tsar and joined the protesters.Without the support of the army the Tsar had no power, he abdicated. -
Kornilov affair
General Kornilov and Kerensky sent troops to protect the goverment but Kornilov had his own plan. He turned against Kerensky and turned it into his own coup. Kerensky asked for help from the Bolsheviks and together they won the battle. This showed the power the Bolsheviks had. -
Provisional Goverment
After the Tasars abdication the Duma got together and set up a provisional goverment. The goverment was made up mainly of moderates with a few radicals. The goverment was more of a failure then a succes. They did not realize how horrible the condition of Russia was, the didnt take Russai out of the war which hte people wanted, and didnt really do much of anyhting as they didnt see themselves as a true powerfull goverment. -
April Thesis
Lenin returnted to Russia in a conceled train and makes a speech about his plans for Russia and his ideas. Thesse included; immediate peace, all power to the voviets, seize of land and factories and the slogan peace, land, and bread. -
Bolshevik Revolution
This revolution was very well planned and thought out and therefore it was succecful. With little resistance the Bolesheviks took power of Russia led by Lenin and Trotsky -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Lenin unlike the past powers did what the people wanted and removed Russia from the war with the Brest-Litovsk treaty. Although to get peace Russia had to sacrafice a huge amount of land to Germany. -
Civil war
THe civil war was between the reds (communists) and the whites (all other parties) it was a fight for the goverment. Other counteries came to RUssia to help.The reds defeated the whites on account of the whites being unorganized, the reds having control of key points and aspects of Russia, the leadership of Lenin, and the attitudes of the groups. -
War communism
With the civil war going on Lenin needed the Red army to be at its best so he came up with war communism. Under this almost everyhitng, land, foods and more was taken from the pesants and givin to the army.Peasants tried to resist to this but it was pointless. -
League of Nations
The first meeting was of League of Nations had 42 countries envolved. The League was to be centered in Geneva, Switzerland, a neutral location. The League of Nations was created to ensure that war never broke out again. It was created to mantain peace. At first Germany, Russia, and the United States were not members. The U.S.S.R joined in 1943. -
New economic Policy
After a few years Lenin realized that his idea of war communism was not helping Russia so he came up with the NEP. This stated that some private trade was permitted, Peasants could sell surplus, and workers in small factories could "buy" them. This overall somewhat improved production -
Treaty of Rapallo
The treaty of Rapallo was signed between Germany and the U.S.S.R it was an agreement that said the U.S.S.R would create war materials for Germany as at this time it was illegal for German to manufacture war wepons. For helping Germany the U.S.S.R would gain steel manufacturing technology. -
The First Five year plan
Stalin had goals for Russia and created the first five year plan it included; Compound economy in which free trade was eliminated, Collectivization where peasants land and grain was taken from them to help with industrilization, and heavy industy Stallin wanted to make Russia just as industrialled as Great Britain -
Kellog-Briand Pact
This was an agreement that included 62 countries. It had two clauses: The first outlawed war as an international policy, the second called upon signatories to resolve matters in peaceful ways. The countries wanted to avoid a second world war. -
The Purges
Stalin was determined to eliminate anyone he was threatned by. This included party memers, army officers, peasants, and anyone else who was in his way. He used his secret police to do this. He killed around 20 million people. -
The Nazi-soviet Pact
Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in 1939. This was an agreement between the two countries that they would not invade each other. This helped Germany because they would not have a war on two fronts and Russia recieved land.
