This was terribly inconsiderate of the military as the other 82% of the nation was left to starve as the military was the government’s top priority. This led to extreme cases of hunger across Russia which soon became famine. Food shortages were at their worst in the towns and cities, Petrograd suffered particularly badly due to the remoteness from the food-producing regions. Secondly, transportation was a key pre- existing war condition; it was the disruption of the transport system rather than the decline in food production that was the major cause Russia’s wartime shortages. The attempt to transport millions of troops and masses of supplies to the war fronts created unbearable pressure on the Russian transport system, and it bucked under the pressure.
Tsarina Alexandra was influenced by Gregori Rasputin, an unpopular and scruffy “holy” man, who was supposedly controlling her son’s haemophilia condition. Nicholas’s decisions at the Eastern Front caused the country's military failures; by 1917 over 1,300,000 men had been killed in battle, 4,200,000 wounded and 2,417,000 had been captured by the enemy. First World War had a disastrous impact on the Russian economy; food was in short supply and this led to rising prices. By January 1917 the price of commodities in Petrograd had increased by six times. In an attempt to increase their wages, industrial workers went on strike.
By the time it came to 1918 food shortages had caused riots and discontent and the government was finding it difficult to keep the army supplied. Industrialists became independent on war time business and they severely struggled when the war came to an abrupt end in 1918. Due to the opposition from many neutralists the government operated through the use of emergency powers, where parliament played the role of simply rubber stamping legislation. The Italian socialists openly condemned the conflict as a capitalist or ‘bosses’ war. Italian politics was largely divided during war years.
- The country was devastated after a long civil war and the war with Japan: railways, roads, canals and dykes had been destroyed and there were chronic food shortages. - Industry was backward - Agriculture was inefficient and incapable of feeding the poverty-stricken masses - Inflation seemed out of control Mao had the support of the peasants and the middle class - Mao very much succeeded and China today is still very much his creation - He started by looking closely at Stalin’s methods and experimented to find out which would work in China and where a special Chinese approach was necessary. a.) The constitution of 1950 (officially adopted 1954): - included the National People’s Congress, the State Council, and the Chairman of the Republic, whose function was to make sure that laws were carried out and the administration of the country went ahead. The constitution was important because it provided China with a strong central government for the first time for many years, and it has remained largely unchanged.
Germany went back to unrestricted U-boat attacks in a desperate attempt to win the war, after the blockade of Germany. German naval intelligence believed that this method would result in the loss of 600,000 tons of food and other supplies that were being shipped into Britain per month; this would lead to major food shortages and Britain would be starved into defeat. From the source, I can gather that unrestricted submarine warfare did have a significant impact on British trading, in view of the fact that the subma rine warfare not only affected the men that were on ships and fighting upfront, but the whole of the British nation
Czar Nicholas II saw the possibility of diverting Russian discontent with a “successful war”, and so in February, 1904, Nicholas decided to go to war with Japan. The war was a disaster for the Czar – the Russian army was ill-equipped, poorly armed, and unskilfully trained; the transportation system throughout Russia collapsed and bread prices soared, thus destroying the confidence in the government. Basically, government corruption and inefficiency was exposed during the war and as the war continued, discontent among the people increased dramatically and they lost faith in their
World War II was a hard and trying time for many, but more so for the Japanese in Canada. They became subject to harassment and racism and were let down by their government. As a result, thousands of Japanese were uprooted to be imprisoned in internment camps kilometres away from their homes. Branded as enemy aliens the Japanese Canadians soon came to the realization that the nation they called home contained so much hate towards them that Canada was becoming just as foreign to them as Japan was. Following the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Japanese Canadians lost almost everything, including their livelihood.
One of the reasons why the economy weakened after the Second World War was because of the resources Britain needed for warfare. Three industries which were the “engines of power”, cotton, coal and engineering, were declining (Darwin, 1988: 60). Without the means to modernize her industrial technologies Britain’s influence in the world declined. Furthermore, many factories, houses and shipping ports were destroyed during the bombing. According to Darwin (1988: 65), twenty five percent of the national wealth was needed for war supplies, restoration of industries and reconstruction of the buildings.
* Germany had hyper-inflation 1923 * Germany suffered immensely from the Great Depression as they had loaned large sums of money from USA and after the Wall Street Crash USA wanted their loans back. Political: * The German Weimar Republic political system was weak. It had numerous parties and struggled for one party to obtain a majority. * The political system did not have the public support because of the countries suffering from result of: * War * Unemployment * Weak economy with high inflation * Fear of communism Social: * The public had no faith in the political leaders after the failure of WW1. * The Treaty of Versailles caused Germany to suffer large territorial losses (1million square miles, 6million subjects) * Territorial losses meant that Germany lost precious sources of raw materials and a major income source (economic) * As a result of the Great Depression, companies throughout Germany were declaring bankruptcy and millions of workers were
However, the greatest humiliation came at the battle of Tsushima in May 1905. Russia lost 25-35 warships in this clash. Many mistakes were key to the loss of this war. To begin with the Japanese were far better prepared to tackle disease with medical water testing devices. As well as this the Trans-Siberian railway was still unfinished and this meant that Russia struggled to move its troops and supplies form west to east.