RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

WHO/WHERE FOUGHT

• The Russian Empire
• The empire of Japan
• Fought on liaodong peninsula,
• Mukden and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea

WHY THE WAR BEGAN

• Russia rejects Japanese Plan
• Divide Manchuria & Korea spheres influence
• Japan naval attack, Port Arthur
• Russia was defeated

DURING WAR

• Japan won series of victories
• January 1905 port Arthur fell
• Russian Troops defeated at Shenyang, China
• Russian Baltic fleet destroyed

WAR ENDED

• Three major defeats
• Russia defeated
• President Theodore Roosevelt
• Peace treaty of Portsmouth 1905

After the war, Japan appeared from the conflict as the first modern non-western world power and set sights on greater imperial expansion.

Fun Fact:
Russian military's disastrous performance in the war was one of the instant causes of the Russian revolution of 1905

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