Wars

Question 1

Crimean War

Answer 1

Humiliated by defeat. Pressure for reform, catalyst for change - emancipation

Question 2

Russo-Japanese War

Answer 2

October Manifesto, year of revolution - coincided with discontent - Bloody Sunday

Question 3

Peace of Portsmouth

Answer 3

Loss of Manchurian railway and Port Arthur, Russia recognised Japanese influence over Korea.

Question 4

WW1 (3 things)

Answer 4

Led to Tsar abdication after demonstrations and resentment. Pro gov loss support due to war. Helped Bolsheviks take over - treaty of Brest Litovks - lost 1/3 land

Question 5

Civil War (4 things)

Answer 5

Bolshevik victory. Led to strong centralised leadership and control of all life. Accompanied with famine, disease and terror - 8-10 million died. War communism - NEP.

Question 6

WW2 (3 things)

Answer 6

Towns and railways destroyed. Big loss of life. Crimean Tartars transported to Kazhakstan - 4.7 million by 1947 in camps.

Question 7

Cold War (2 things)

Answer 7

Tensions with West, MAD, Berlin Wall, CMC. Huge military spending and foreign policy spending led to Khrushchev’s demise