WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Russo-Japanese War was started mainly by competition for imperial influence in Manchuria and which Asian peninsula?
A
Korea
B
Japan
C
Vietnam
D
China
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Russo-Japanese War (Japanese: , romanized: Nichiro sensō, lit. ‘Japanese-Russian War’; Russian: ́-ó á, romanized: Rússko-yapónskaya voyná) was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire.

Detailed explanation-2: -Late in the night on February 8, 1904, Japan launched a surprise attack against the Russian-held Port Arthur, along the coast of Manchuria, beginning the Russo-Japanese War.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Treaty ultimately gave Japan control of Korea and much of South Manchuria, including Port Arthur and the railway that connected it with the rest of the region, along with the southern half of Sakhalin Island; Russian power was curtailed in the region, but it was not required to pay Japan’s war costs.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Russo-Japanese War was a military conflict fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan from 1904 to 1905. Much of the fighting took place in what is now northeastern China. The Russo-Japanese War was also a naval conflict, with ships exchanging fire in the waters surrounding the Korean peninsula.

Detailed explanation-5: -The First Sino-Japanese War ended with the Treaty of Shimonoseki, in which China recognized the independence of Korea and ceded Taiwan, the adjoining Pescadores, and the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria to Japan.

Detailed explanation-6: -The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) was a brief yet bloody conflict that featured large land battles and great engagements between fleets of ironclad ships. At war’s end, Japan emerged a victorious imperial power, while Russia was defeated and on the precipice of revolution.

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