Another cause of the war was that Russia wanted to continue its expansion into the Far East and obtain a free port. They chose to go to war with Japan because Japan was a small country with fewer resources than a country of Russia’s size. The biggest cause of the war was that Russia wanted to distract attention from its domestic troubles. However this war was a complete disaster which resulted in Russia being completely humiliated.
The Republic of Korea Army lost 415,000 to death and 429,000 were badly wounded. Syngman Rhee and Kim Il Sung tried to rejoin the North and South of Korea however it remained divided. This war was both a military and political success to the USA to a small extent due to their large economic loss and death of many of their soldiers for a war that nobody won as they only signed a cease fire agreement instead of a peace treaty. The cost of the war for the USA was a lot less than those for Korea and China, however was still a huge annoyance for them. 33,651 American soldiers died during combat and 103,284 were injured.
By January 1917 World War 1 (WW1) had left Russia in a critical state with over 1 million troops dead and 4 million wounded. Workers in the city were suffering and on the verge of starvation. The president of the Duma warned the Tsar that Russia was reaching a crisis point but Nicholas ignored the warnings. WW1 had set the scene for a revolution and had made the people of Russia resent the Tsar. The war caused anger in Russian society and anti-government feelings among the mass of the population.
His army also consisted of millions of poor, starving peasants with bad equipment, poor supplies of rifles and ammunition. In 1916, two million soldiers were killed or seriously wounded, and one third of a million taken prisoners. The Russian population was horrified. They considered the Tsar irresponsible for taking over the army and held him responsible for everything; as a result instability was growing at an alarming rate for the Tsar who had once held himself so assuredly in power. Nicholas II took this course of action to assure himself he still had complete control of Russia.
16% of the 1.8million who died at war were conscripted and all families were somehow impacted by the war, which consequently led to a decline in the popularity of the Royal Family. People famously said “what family is going to survive war with all six sons alive?” in reference to the Kaiser’s six sons as awareness was spreading that there was an inequality of sacrifice among classes. The divisions between classes which had previously existed were now even greater. Peasantry and rural producers felt alienated by government regulations and were now hampered by the lack of labour and there was also huge resentment towards the Junkers who maintained their tax privileges until 1916. The urban working class also suffered due to the rise of the black market, which was the source of
However, Japan cannot truly be classed as a winner because their actual involvement in the war was minimal. As a whole, Korea was greatly damaged by the war. 10% of the population was killed, wounded or missing due to the conflict, and 600,000 homes were destroyed. In
On the other hand, the anguished effects of WWI were still enduring in the Germanic collective memory. Many Germans perceived The Versailles Treaty, signed by the Allies in 1919, as a humiliation. The treaty contained a number of heavy impositions to Germany which were socio-economically unbearable to a once great and powerfu l nation. The amount that had to be paid to the Allies as war damage 2 made the Mark lost all its value, causing a hyperinflation so severe that the prices increased by over 100 times in just one year (Bresciani -Turroni, 1968.). The hyperinflation crisis, which was only solved in 1924, lasted enough time to ruin thousands of Germanic families, thus worsening the general feeling of rage against the treaty.
The First World War had a major effect of the Russians attitude towards the Tsar but a minor contribution to the decline and fall of the Romanov Dynasty. The Romanov Dynasty was destroyed as a result of various disastrous incidents and major mistakes made by the Tsar Nicholas the || himself. The First World War played a role in his abdication, but to a minor extent as they agitated the citizens to rise against the Tsar. Indeed the first world war had fundamental impacts upon the decline and fall of the Romanov dynasty some of these being the plummeting economy, lack of exports, and inflation. However, a major contribution to the fall of the Romanov Dynasty was the views of the Tsar in regards to the war.
The war was a large mistake for the Tsar. Although Russia obtained some successes at the beginning, they were facing one of the most advanced military powers in the world and were being led by incompetent Generals as well as being badly equipped Nicholas II made a grave error, when he fired the military commander and took command of the army. This was a mistake in the fact that he had no military experience whatsoever and from then on, the Tsar was seen as responsible for every failure and defeat that Russia suffered. It saw the loss of 200,000 men and around 15 million peasants were enrolled in the army from the farms. This would lead to the army losing their faith in the Tsar which was extremely vital, for as long as the army remained loyal to the him, they were able to put down any threat of revolution however, the poor conditions eventually led to them refusing to fire upon rioters.
In the end, the offensive cost Britain and the Empire 419,654 casualties, 125,000 of them dead. One other failure was just the staggering amounts of dead bodies from the British in a single day was just unbelievable! The British, instead of ordering a retreat, they just ran into the lines of machine guns, snipers and to sum it all up, they ran to their deaths with the Germans barely losing anyone at all. The British had no clue what they were doing unlike the French who did but they had no support whatsoever. Then, this is the biggest failure of them all according to me.