Explore the Crimean War. See who fought in the Crimean War and view the causes of it. Learn who won the Crimean War and read about the effects of...
Would you want someone else coming into your country and telling you how you could treat different groups of people? Well, the Ottoman Empire didn't like that either, and that's how the Crimean War started. Learn all about it in this lesson. Causes of the Crimean War Imagine you're ...
World War IWorld War I began in the summer of 1914 and did not end until November of 1918. It took place all over the world with the main part of the conflict taking place in Europe and modern-day Turkey. It was the most destructive and violent conflict that the world had ever seen...
Russian Civil War (1918–20), conflict in which the Red Army successfully defended the newly formed Bolshevik government led by Vladimir Lenin against various Russian and interventionist anti-Bolshevik armies. The Bolshevik victory ensured the supremacy
The Crimean War (1853–56) was fought mainly on the Crimean Peninsula between Russia and Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire. It arose from the conflict of great powers in the Middle East and was more directly caused by Russian demands to exercise pr
Russo-Turkish wars, series of wars between Russia and the Ottoman Empire in the 17th–19th century. The wars reflected the decline of the Ottoman Empire and resulted in the gradual southward extension of Russia’s frontier and influence into Ottoman terr
Partitions of Poland, three territorial divisions of Poland (1772, 1793, 1795), perpetrated by Russia, Prussia, and Austria, by which Poland’s size was progressively reduced until, after the final partition, the state of Poland ceased to exist. Learn mo
A History of War On December 16 Putin offered Ukraine $15 billion in loans and reduced gas prices to offset a shortfall in the country’s finances that had been sparked by the near depletion of its hard currency reserves. The parliament enacted draconian anti-protest laws on January 16, 2014...
Collapse of the Soviet Union, sequence of events that led to the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. on December 31, 1991. The reforms implemented by President Mikhail Gorbachev and the backlash against them hastened the demise of the Soviet state. Learn more ab
Failed state, a state that is unable to perform the two fundamental functions of the sovereign nation-state in the modern world system: it cannot project authority over its territory and peoples, and it cannot protect its national boundaries. The governi