HIST 3121 Lecture 3: The World At War-Week 2
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Russia: desperately trying to find access to warm water ports-black sea mediterranean. All ports freeze over in the winter: want the crimean peninsula, great powers (gb, fr and ottomans) try to stop. Russia= crimean war (1853-56) russia is beaten: 1870s- modernization drives. 1904/05: loss in russo-jap war- japan destroys russia. Should have been a wakeup call- no way an asian power would defeat them. Tsar tries to regain power- through duma. Tensions in monarchical system due to loss of asian power= political disagreement. 12 years away from romanov dynasty collapsing. Lenin has wide support with working class. Ottoman empire: not: egypt (gb), arabian peninsula, persia (iran). Empire: in the process of collapsing- takes out loans to fitght crimean war- indebted to. European powers, tries to modernize along western lines: 1839-1870s- tanzimat era. Import science and technology: 1870s: balkan and bulgarian revolutions (european poss) The sick man of europe -end of muslim population being in power in.
