Compare And Contrast Manchuria And Russia

1904 was when the Russo-Japanese War started and it ended in 1905. Japan ended up on top and this forced Russia to stop its expansion in the far east. The war started out as a fight between Russia and Japan over Korea and Manchuria. Russia had forced China into giving them land at the tip of the Liaotung Peninsula, in Manchuria. Russia had also made an alliance with China against Japan. However Japan had started expanding its army after their war with China. Now Japan had more ground troops than Russia. Russia had agreed to withdraw its troops from Manchuria. This was when Japan took its chance and attacked. The last naval battle had given the Japanese the upper hand and given them full command of the sea. In the end, both financially and politically exhausted countries came together to make peace. President Theodore Roosevelt was the mediator and Russia had to give up its place in the Manchuria Peninsula and

This is because most Russians lived on the western side of Russia. The Russians farther away also felt separated from the battle, they received new slowly about it and did show much patriotic enthusiasm about it when it did arrive. During this time there were also bad harvests and food was priced very high, meaning starvation for the lower class. There economy drop also leads to high unemployment rates, especially for industrial workers. This leads to many riots and strikes throughout Russia. Minister of the Interior Phleve thought that the solution for this is “small victorious war against Japan”(History). It was used as an attempt to distract the public from their problems. The result of the war was even worse that the Russians had expected. The war did not have a good impact on Russia’s economy, in fact it just made it worse. Food and fuel shortages increased, prices raised and so did unemployment. Russia had to build back up and it did so with