GOV 312L Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: 1905 Russian Revolution, Preventive War, Southern Dobruja
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I n april of 1904, the british and the french concluded a series of agreements resolving multiple colonial disputes in north america, africa, and southeast asia. Had at least two important political consequences. Entente cordiale prior colonial crises like those over the nile and fashoda in 1898, it acted as a broad peace settlement capable of preventing any remaining imperial differences from sparking a war between the two great powers. Entente cordiale reoriented political alignments in europe by opening the possibility that. Great britain could join the alliance between france and russia in a war against. In september of 1905, russia signed the treaty of portsmouth terminating its war with japan over competing imperial interests in manchuria and korea. Military defeat threatened to topple the russian government by prompting the 1905 revolution . Tsar remained in power by instituting a series of internal reforms that included the creation of an elected parliamentary body, the duma.
