The Roots of World War I

Part Seven - Russia

• Industrial Revolution – not so much• Napoleon – Russia sends him back• Crimean War

Charge of the Light Brigade

'Forward, the Light Brigade!'Was there a man dismay'd ?Not tho' the soldier knewSome one had blunder'd:Theirs not to make reply,Theirs not to reason why,Theirs but to do & die,Into the valley of DeathRode the six hundred.

Part Seven - Russia

• House of Romanov– Peter the Great– Ivan the Terrible

Part Seven - Russia

• Tsar Alexander II• Reign 1855-1881• Emancipation of Serfs• Assassinated 1881

Part Seven - Russia

• Russian Emperor – Tsar (or Czar)• German Emperor – Kaiser

Part Seven - Russia

• Russian Emperor – Tsar (or Czar)• German Emperor – Kaiser• Both names come from CAESAR

Part Seven - Russia

• Tsar Alexander III• Reign: 1881-1894• League of Three

Emperors (with Germany and Austria-Hungary)

Part Seven - Russia

• Tsar Nicholas II• Reign: 1894-1918• Russo-Japanese War• Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday

• January 22, 1905• Unarmed, peaceful demonstrators killed by

Imperial Guard

Bloody Sunday

• Difficult day! In St. Petersburg there were serious disturbances due to the desire of workers to get to the Winter Palace. The troops had to shoot in different places of the city, there were many dead and wounded. Lord, how painful and bad![

Part Seven - Russia

• Revolution of 1905

Part Seven - Russia

• 1892 Franco-Russian Alliance• 1907 Anglo-Russian Entente• Friendship with Serbia

Part Eight – The Fuse

Part Eight – The Fuse

• June 28,1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo