HIS 590 : Lecture Summary for Studying
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Hitler ally of japan, japan attacks the u. s and then u. s goes to war in the second world war. Russia biggest country, stretches 10 timezones, very multi cultural, multi- religion. The russians are about the same isolationist as the japanese before napoleon. Russia becomes allies with prussians and the british against the french. After 1915 russia becomes a european super power. 1850s britain sort of a democracy as well as france and they start to separate themselves from russia. Russia then becomes a threat, concerned about russia on the black sea. British go to war with russia is crimean war. Russians are defeated and loose right to pass through the dartinol straits. Russians have now fallen behind others at this point. 60 million population, 50 million out of the population are peasant slaves. There is a middle class rising up, small but well educated but treated as peasants.
