RUSSO JAP WAR 1904- cause of rev?

Question 1

russia was

Answer 1

expansuonist/imperialistic >collonisation

Question 2

n2 wished to capitalise

Answer 2

on wearing surrounding empires(like n.1crimean war)

Question 3

east

Answer 3

machuria has warm Sea ports, Chinese province of Manchuria

Question 4

cause
1;WEAKNESS OF CHINA

Answer 4

empire was weak, Sino Japanese war 1894(didn’t seem like big factor), eurpoean colonisation in china(dwp) = target for empires to exploit

Question 5

cause 2
IMPERIAL INTRESRS RUSSIA/JAPAN

Answer 5

expansion of empires (russia-manchuria w/o forge influence) (Japan expand authority into Korea)

Question 6

cause 3
HOWEVER, RUSSIA INTERVENED TO RESTRICT JAPAN INF ON CHINA

Answer 6

1996, russia+germany+france forced Japan evacuate Manchuria(triple intervention)
russia= ally/protector of china

Question 7

cause 4
RUSSIA NOW ALLOWED EXTEND INFLUENCE INTO CHINA
1896/7/8

Answer 7

1896-allowed build trisiberian railway through Manchuria to russia port
1897-russia troops occupy laladong peninsula
1898-russia pressures china to allow to eat naval fortress at port Arthur, fleer arrived in December

Question 8

cause 4
RUSSIA NOW ALLOWED EXTEND INFLUENCE INTO CHINA
1898/1900

Answer 8

china allow to build branching to port Arthur
1900-russia sent 177k troops to manchira to help squash boxer rebellion
russia supposed to move troops from Manchuria 1903 but declines=tension with Japan

Question 9

cause 5
JAPAN BEGUN NEGOTIATION WITH RUSSA, HOWEVER RUSSIA DECLINED = WAR

Answer 9

Japan properse russia allowed to stay along as allowed to keep korea
=declines(view themselves smarter/stornger-japan=inferior)
beloved Japan would not risk going into war - russia superiority

Question 10

cause 6
JAPAN ATTACK PORT ARHTUR

Answer 10

negotiations broke down, attacked port Arthur (russia naval fleet)feb 1904
russia took by supirse
Japan declare war 3h after

Question 11

cause 7
N.2 ADVISED TO GO TO WAR

Answer 11

minister interior(plehve) argued ‘short swift victorious win’
-divert attention from russia internal problems

Question 12

course of the war

Answer 12

thought attacked Japanese but was British
=shut sewers canal
=had to go longest route = 1y + crushed within 2 hours (battle of mukden)

Question 13

1905 treaty of pourtsmouth

Answer 13

abandon all expansion aspirations
=angerd all russian people(was pop at first-supreme European)
constant stream of bad news from far east soon turned public opinion of war/agaisnt regime (money waste incompetent)

Question 14

factors in russian defeat

Answer 14

-knew little about Japan-underestimated military capacity
-wage war 600miles away
-japanes more modern/tech advanced
-organisation in russia=chaotic= inferior officers/lack of communication

Question 15

consequences n2

Answer 15

international humiliation- first defeat European nation by asian nation
added to rev (catalyst)
sections army treated n.2 stablity
minister interior (plehve) assassinated