why did russia withdraw frome the world war 1?
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Russia withdrew from WWI after the Bolshevik (communist) Revolution in November 1917. They did so because the Russian miltary failures on the eastern Front had caused not only immense suffering but also huge expense. It's one of the reasons why the Bolsheviks gained support for their revolution - even though as a result they agreed a Peace Treaty with Germany (at Brest Litovsk) which gave large areas of Russia to the Germans.\n\nGo to these websites they are cool \nhttp://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/studentforum/index.php?s=421ed633b8d19bcf2c13a36aa1ac0ac2&act=idx\n\n\nhttp://www.simaqianstudio.com/forum/index.php?
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Russia always wanted to have access to warm oceans since its coastlines are frozen most of the year. This would increase its economic and military power. also by getting in Afghanistan it thought it could infulence pakistan and iran better. this invasion would also give better control over world's energy source areas.\ncold war did not start with that. i think it started with the building berlin wall? it eventually ended with the collapse of the same wall symbolically.\n\nif you are asking about war on afghanistan, russia withdrew its forces accepting defeat.\n\nI recommend Zbigniew Brzezinsky's "The Grand Chessboard" book for reading.
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I’m getting too old, I can’t believe anyone would need to ask such a question.\nWorld War I, 1914–18, also known as the Great War, conflict, chiefly in Europe, among most of the great Western powers. It was the largest war the world had yet seen.Causes \nWorld War I was immediately precipitated by the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by a Serbian nationalist in 1914. There were, however, many factors that had led toward war. Prominent causes were the imperialistic, territorial, and economic rivalries that had been intensifying from the late 19th cent., particularly among Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, and Austria-Hungary.\nOf equal importance was the rampant spirit of nationalism, especially unsettling in the empire of Austria-Hungary and perhaps also in France. Nationalism had brought the unification of Germany by blood and iron, and France, deprived of Alsace and Lorraine by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, had been left with its own nationalistic cult seeking revenge against Germany. While French nationalists were hostile to Germany, which sought to maintain its gains by militarism and alliances, nationalism was creating violent tensions in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; there the large Slavic national groups had grown increasingly restive, and Serbia as well as Russia fanned Slavic hopes for freedom and Pan-Slavism.\nImperialist rivalry had grown more intense with the new imperialism of the late 19th and early 20th cent. The great powers had come into conflict over spheres of influence in China and over territories in Africa, and the Eastern Question, created by the decline of the Ottoman Empire, had produced several disturbing controversies. Particularly unsettling was the policy of Germany. It embarked late but aggressively on colonial expansion under Emperor William II, came into conflict with France over Morocco, and seemed to threaten Great Britain by its rapid naval expansion.\nThese issues, imperialist and nationalist, resulted in a hardening of alliance systems in the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente and in a general armaments race. Nonetheless, a false optimism regarding peace prevailed almost until the onset of the war, an optimism stimulated by the long period during which major wars had been avoided, by the close dynastic ties and cultural intercourse in Europe, and by the advance of industrialization and economic prosperity. Many Europeans counted on the deterrent of war's destructiveness to preserve the peace.\nWar's Outbreak \nThe Austrian annexation (1908) of Bosnia and Hercegovina created an international crisis, but war was avoided. The Balkan Wars (1912–13) remained localized but increased Austria's concern for its territorial integrity, while the solidification of the Triple Alliance made Germany more yielding to the demands of Austria, now its one close ally. The assassination (June 28, 1914) of Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo set in motion the diplomatic maneuvers that ended in war.\nThe Austrian military party, headed by Count Berchtold, won over the government to a punitive policy toward Serbia. On July 23, Serbia was given a nearly unacceptable ultimatum. With Russian support assured by Sergei Sazonov, Serbia accepted some of the terms but hedged on others and rejected those infringing upon its sovereignty. Austria-Hungary, supported by Germany, rejected the British proposal of Sir Edward Grey (later Lord Grey of Fallodon) and declared war (July 28) on Serbia.\nRussian mobilization precipitated a German ultimatum (July 31) that, when unanswered, was followed by a German declaration of war on Russia (Aug. 1). Convinced that France was about to attack its western frontier, Germany declared war (Aug. 3) on France and sent troops against France through Belgium and Luxembourg. Germany had hoped for British neutrality, but German violation of Belgian neutrality gave the British government the pretext and popular support necessary fo
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Russia entered WWI against Germany and Germany snuck Lenin back into Russia after he had been exiled.  This allowed Lenin to start the Bolshevik revolution.  Is that what you wanted?
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After the "great war", the war to end all wars (WWI), no one wanted to get drawn into another big conflict. They thought the best way to stay out of a war was to avoid confrontation and let Germany do what it wants to.\n\nAccording to the treaty of Versailles, a whole host of restrictions were placed on Germany,.... they couldnt have an airforce, they couldnt have a very big navy, they couldnt put troops in a certain area near France, they couldnt build U-boats, ....\nWhen Hitler came to power, one by one, Germany broke pretty much every single stipulation of the treaty (and wasnt even very secretive about it).  Other countries didnt want to get into a war, so they looked the other way while all this was happening.  Germany decided that it wanted to annex the sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, so they did and other countries let them (Czechoslovakia wasnt too pleased though).\nGermany's invasion of Poland was the last straw and is commonly used to mark the start of WWII in Europe.\n\nEngland's prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, is known for his policy of appeasment.  Other countries looked on while Germany was doing all this, hoping to avoid another war when in reality it let Germany get away with way too much.
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Hi there, \n\nThe First World War started on June 28, 1914 and it ended on November 11,1918 by the Treaty of Verssailles signed in the Mirrored Palace of Germany.\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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It has everything to do with the Treaty of Versailles. As it's name points out, this is a treaty signed in the Hall of Mirrors in the French city of Versailles. It was the peace treaty that officially ended World War I and unofficially started World War II.\n\nOne of the terms of this treaty was the creation of the League of Nations, whose goal would be to prevent another world war. Other parts of the treaty stated that Germany was to be fully blamed for World War I and because of this, Germany was demanded to pay up all damages calculated of WWI. Also, Germany was denied having an airforce, a navy and was only allowed to have a limited land army. It's colonies were taken away and other damages were also imposed. In a nutshell, Germany was brought to it's knees and into a depression.\n\nThis helped bring about the rise of Hitler who promised to tear up the hated treaty. Of course, Germans supported him and once he arranged for virtually limitless power, it was too late. Nations part of the League of Nations were also fooled by Hitler. They allowed Hitler to take over Austria-Hungary, which belong to Germany prior to WWI. The League of Nations did not disagree much with Hitler's request to undo the Treaty of Versailles. They agreed with him that the terms were much too harsh.\n\nIt was only until Hitler marched into Poland that everyone realized what was happening. But of course, that set foot into a much bloodier World War.\n\nReally, the League of Nations failed to prevent WWII by allowing a genius psychopath to manipulate them. (This is my opinion.)\n\nHope this novel of mine answers your question.
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Militarism, Adolf Hitler want to re-arm Germany, Italy looking outward for conquest, Japan with recent naval victory against Russia in Vladivostok believes it can take the world as it had humiliate the Russian giant.\n\nAgression, believing that after WW1, no one wants another war, it can agress and bully neigbors, Germany start annexing Austro-Hungary, Japan use Manchuria as an excuse to be in China, Italy due to lack of any natural resource start venturing into Africa.\n\nNationalism, German leader lead the people believe that the suffering they have was a result of their defeat and was able to raise the nationalism spirit of the people, Japan with its emperor regard as the son of heaven, ralied the people to believe that they are no longer a small nation, they can anyone as they had shown in defeating the Russian navy. The Italian was ralied together to avoid a civil war.
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well, there were two parts of it.\nthe first, of course, was nuclear technology. at first, the USA was the only one that had atomic bombs. but during the 1940s, Stalin infiltrated FDR's staff and bought the technology. when Russia had atomic bombs, they threatened to use them on us.\nthe other half was what happened to Europe.  by the time the war was over, basically every country in Europe was broke and desolate. so the two countries left standing, USA and Russia. USA and England wanted to push democracy, Russia wanted to expand communism. this lead to pretty much a global fight on how to bring back Europe. when the two sides started fighting, nuclear bombs became trump card.
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Killing of Archduke was a trigger moment, I think.\nThe real cause was that Germany started rising very fast and it has discovered that it was left behind by countries like British Empire, US and France. True, they had big economies and vast colonial territories (like Britain and France)in Africa and Asia, plus European map consisted of unsolved puzzles.\nThe steadfast growing of German economy and its advance in military technologies made it possible to challenge the world leaders of that time and finish first the Austria-Hungary Empire.\nUltimately, the cause for WW 1 were nonnegotiable contradictions within the Great Powers of that time.
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America got involved in World War I because of the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram. (Germany asked Mexico to attack the US and Germany promised they could have Texas and California back!)
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My first reason is that the Japanese would have never surrendered without a full scale invasion of the Japanese mainland if we had not shown such distructive power.  The Japanese were not afraid of death, and would do anything to protect their Emperor, which is part of the reason why we made sure that the Emperor became just a figurehead in Japan after they finally surrendered.\n\nMy second reason is that it saved countless American and Japanese lives.  A full scale invasion of the Japanese mainland was projected to cost at least 1 million American lives.\n\nMy third reason is that America was already wary of Russia at this point.  We needed to make sure that once WWII was over, Russia would see us as a threat, so that Communism could not easily be spread to the US.
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Russia was in world war 1 until the  Russian Revolution, the new Russian (Bolshevik) government decided to make peace with Germany, as they had promised the Russian people prior to the Revolution. This formal agreement, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, was ratified on March 6, 1918. The negotiated peace was the only option in the eyes of the Bolsheviks because the Russian army was in a chaos when the Germans began their advance in February 1918. The old Russian army had been re-organized in January into the "Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" and was still in disarray.
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World War I, also known as the First World War and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations, War to End All Wars was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice (cessation of hostilities) on November 11, 1918. The label World War I or First World War did not come into general use until after the outbreak of World War II in 1939, and until then it was commonly known as the Great War or the World War. The war was fought by the Allied Powers on one side, and the Central Powers on the other, resulting in eventual victory for the Allies. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers or involved so many in the field of battle. By its end, the war had become the bloodiest war in recorded history, though this record was soon to be superseded by World War II.\n\nAmongst Western countries, World War I became infamous for trench warfare along the Western Front, involving a system of opposing trenches (separated by a "No Man's Land") running from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. More than 9 million soldiers died on the various battlefields, and nearly that many more in the participating countries' home fronts on account of food shortages and genocide committed under the cover of various civil wars and internal conflicts. In World War I, only some 5% of the casualties (directly caused by the war) were civilian - in World War II, this figure approached 50%.\n\nUltimately, World War I created a decisive break with the old world order that had emerged after the Napoleonic Wars, as modified by the mid-19th century national revolutions, the processes of European national unification and European colonialism. Three European land empires were shattered and subsequently dismembered to varying degrees: the German, the Austro-Hungarian and the Russian. In the Balkans and the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire experienced the same fate. Three European imperial dynasties, represented by the Hohenzollern, the Hapsburg and the Romanov families in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia respectively, also fell during the war.\n\nWorld War I witnessed the first advent of Communism as a means of government in Russia. The following decades would see the transformation of the old Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a global superpower. In the east, the demise of the Ottoman Empire paved the way for a modern democratic successor state, Turkey, in the core region of Anatolia, in addition to a number of successor states and territories throughout the Middle East. In Central Europe, the new states of Czechoslovakia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Yugoslavia were born and Austria, Hungary and Poland were re-created. Shortly after the war, in 1923, Fascists came to power in Italy; in 1933, 15 years after the war, Nazism took over Germany. Problems unresolved or created by the war would be highly important factors in the outbreak, within 20 years, of World War II.\n\n\n\nCauses:\n\nOn June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student. The Archduke was there to assert imperial authority over a disputed province. Princip was supported by pan-Serbian nationalists, with links to the Serbian military. Though this assassination is usually considered the immediate trigger for the war, its origins can be traced back to the complex web of alliances and counterbalances that developed between the various European powers after 1871.\n\n\nReasons and responsibilities\nThe reasons for the outbreak of World War I are a complicated issue; there are many factors which intertwine. Some examples are:\n\nFervent and uncompromising nationalism \nUnresolved previous disputes \nThe intricate system of alliances \nConvoluted and fragmented governance \nDelays and misunderstandings in diplomatic communications \nThe arms races of the previous decades. \nRigidity in military planning
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It was actually Stalin's personal decision to end it. People were getting too rich, and they did not care very much about Socialist Principals any more. Neither Stalin nor the Communist Party were interested to lose control over Russia, hence it was decided to cancel the NEP toward the end of the 1920th decade. Cancellation of NEP was the first step of Stalin Power consolidation, Purges and Hunger were to follow.
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They shouldn't have been so lax in dealing with the USSR.  An extra involvement in a foreign war; such as a well-placed nuke on the Kremlin, would have helped end the cold war and negated the modern influx of communism and socialism into Western Europe.
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"Russia, one of the Allied powers during the war, had problems with its supply routes over sea. The Baltic Sea was locked by the German Navy, while the Black Sea's only entrance was through the Bosporus, which was controlled by the Ottoman Empire."\n\n"By late 1914, the Western Front, in France and Belgium, had effectively become fixed. A new front was desperately needed."\n\n"After the failure of the naval attacks, it had become clear that ground troops were necessary to eliminate the Turkish mobile artillery."\n\nThe Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, "The Anzacs were to land north of Gaba Tepe on the Aegean coast from where they could advance across the peninsula and prevent retreat from or reinforcement of Kilitbahir."