Did Russia quit the war during the first world war or the second world war?
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Russia was in world war 1 until the  Russian Revolution, the new Russian (Bolshevik) government decided to make peace with Germany, as they had promised the Russian people prior to the Revolution. This formal agreement, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, was ratified on March 6, 1918. The negotiated peace was the only option in the eyes of the Bolsheviks because the Russian army was in a chaos when the Germans began their advance in February 1918. The old Russian army had been re-organized in January into the "Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" and was still in disarray.
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It was called the Great War to set it apart from the wars fought previously. It was the first war where nations conducted "total war", where all parts of society, government, and the economy were controlled and focused on the war effort. In fact, economists used to "pooh pooh" such a war, saying it would bankrupt any nation foolish enough to try it. It had the highest casualties out of any war to date, it involved more nations than had every been involved in a conflict before, and it went on day in and day out for longer than the other wars did. It was the first industrial war.\n\nThen, along came World War II, which was very similar to World War I, and so gained the sobriquet (name) World War II, and the Great War was renamed World War I.\n\nIt was not called "The War to End All Wars" because it was felt that evil was defeated. It was called that because after experiencing the effects of such a war it was felt that no sane society would want to go through it again. This was partially true, giving rise to the appeasement of France and England in the late 1930's.\n\nHope this helps!
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The principal reason Russia entered World War I was because Russia still felt itself to be the hereditary protector of the self-determination of Slavic peoples in Europe (also, Russia and Slavs are Orthodox Christian, Austria and Hungary are Catholic Christian). Serbia, a kingdom racially made up largely of Slavic peoples, was threatened by Austria Hungary after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. When Austria threatened to invade Serbia, Russia ordered a partial mobilization (calling up of reserves and deploying its army) against Austria as a deterrent. Germany, who was Austria's principal ally, declared war against Russia.\n\nRussia's position as hereditary protector of the Serbs came about through the centuries long conflict with the expanding Ottoman Turkish Empire which placed the Balkans under the Ottoman Yoke, the enlsavement, persecution and exploitation of the Christian population (largely Orthodox Christian, just like the majority in Russia). In the late 1800's and very early 1900's, in a series of conflicts called the Balkan Wars, Russia was instrumental in forcing Turkey out of almost all of the Balkan Peninsula.\n\nRussia and Austria had been allies in the Napoleanic Wars and afterwards for several decades, but in the Crimean War Austria made a deal with England to not declare neutrality (at the time, when a friend went to war, you declared your neutrality so your friend did not have to deploy soldiers in defense against your possible attack). As a result, Russia felt it had to send many of its best soldiers to guard against Austria while sending politically unreliable soldiers such as Polish and Asians, who did not perform well against England and France. Russia lost the war and never forgave Austria. In 1866, Prussia instigated a war against Austria; when Prussia won, part of the peace was a forced alliance from Austria.\n\nI hope this helps.
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No the Russians held an armistice with Germany in 1917. The armistice we all celebrate was on 11 November 1918.
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Russia entered WW2 after Hitler invaded Russia.  Russia had signed a nonaggression pact with Germany and later Germany broke that pact with Russia by invading.
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Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany. After six months of negotiations which took place at the Paris Peace Conference, the treaty was signed as a follow-up to the armistice signed in November 1918 in Compiègne Forest (which had put an end to the actual fighting). Although there were many agreements to the treaty, one of the more important and recognized agreements required that Germany accept full responsibility for causing the war and, under the terms of articles 231-247, make reparations to certain members of the Allies.
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the British Commonwealth, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered in September 1943, Germany in May 1945. The surrender of Japan marked the end of the war, on September 2, 1945.\n\nIt is possible that up to 62 million people died in the war; estimates vary greatly. Most were civilians who died as a result of disease, starvation, genocide, and the aerial bombing of cities. Estimates place deaths in the Soviet Union at around 23 million, while China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing approximately 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million (16%).\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally split into western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers began their road to independence.\n\nKey alliances are formed\nOn September 1, the German invasion of Poland began World War II. Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand all declared war on Germany on September 3. Nepal, Newfoundland, Tonga, South Africa and Canada followed suit within days. On September 17, the Soviets invaded Poland from the East. The following year, the USSR annexed the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) together with parts of Romania, and attacked Finland. The German-Soviet agreement was brought to an end by the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941.\n\nThe United States of America joined the Allies following the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The Declaration by United Nations, on January 1, 1942, officially united 26 nations as Allies. (The Declaration also formed the basis for the United Nations.) The informal Big 3 alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States emerged in the latter half of the war, and their decisions determined Allied strategy around the world.\n\n\nDates of joining Allies\n Poland: 1939, 1 September \n United Kingdom: 1939, 3 September \n Australia: 1939, 3 September \n New Zealand: 1939, 3 September \n France: 1939, 3 September \n Nepal: 1939, 4 September \n Newfoundland: 1939, 4 September \n Tonga: 1939, 4 September \n South Africa: 1939, 6 September \n Canada: 1939, 10 September \n Denmark: 1940, 9 April \n Norway: 1940, 9 April \n Belgium: 1940, 10 May \n Luxembourg: 1940, 10 May \n Netherlands: 1940, 10 May \n Free France: 1940, 18 June \n Greece: 1940, 28 October \n Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1941, 6 April \n Soviet Union: 1941, 22 June \n Tannu Tuva: 1941, 25 June until 1944, 11 October \n Panama: 1941, 7 December \n Philippines: 1941, 7 December \n Costa Rica: 1941, 8 December \n Dominican Republic: 1941, 8 December \n El Salvador: 1941, 8 December \n Haiti: 1941, 8 December \n Honduras: 1941, 8 December \n Nicaragua: 1941, 8 December \n United
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World War I, also known as the First World War and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations, War to End All Wars was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice (cessation of hostilities) on November 11, 1918. The label World War I or First World War did not come into general use until after the outbreak of World War II in 1939, and until then it was commonly known as the Great War or the World War. The war was fought by the Allied Powers on one side, and the Central Powers on the other, resulting in eventual victory for the Allies. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers or involved so many in the field of battle. By its end, the war had become the bloodiest war in recorded history, though this record was soon to be superseded by World War II.\n\nAmongst Western countries, World War I became infamous for trench warfare along the Western Front, involving a system of opposing trenches (separated by a "No Man's Land") running from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. More than 9 million soldiers died on the various battlefields, and nearly that many more in the participating countries' home fronts on account of food shortages and genocide committed under the cover of various civil wars and internal conflicts. In World War I, only some 5% of the casualties (directly caused by the war) were civilian - in World War II, this figure approached 50%.\n\nUltimately, World War I created a decisive break with the old world order that had emerged after the Napoleonic Wars, as modified by the mid-19th century national revolutions, the processes of European national unification and European colonialism. Three European land empires were shattered and subsequently dismembered to varying degrees: the German, the Austro-Hungarian and the Russian. In the Balkans and the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire experienced the same fate. Three European imperial dynasties, represented by the Hohenzollern, the Hapsburg and the Romanov families in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia respectively, also fell during the war.\n\nWorld War I witnessed the first advent of Communism as a means of government in Russia. The following decades would see the transformation of the old Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a global superpower. In the east, the demise of the Ottoman Empire paved the way for a modern democratic successor state, Turkey, in the core region of Anatolia, in addition to a number of successor states and territories throughout the Middle East. In Central Europe, the new states of Czechoslovakia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Yugoslavia were born and Austria, Hungary and Poland were re-created. Shortly after the war, in 1923, Fascists came to power in Italy; in 1933, 15 years after the war, Nazism took over Germany. Problems unresolved or created by the war would be highly important factors in the outbreak, within 20 years, of World War II.\n\n\n\nCauses:\n\nOn June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student. The Archduke was there to assert imperial authority over a disputed province. Princip was supported by pan-Serbian nationalists, with links to the Serbian military. Though this assassination is usually considered the immediate trigger for the war, its origins can be traced back to the complex web of alliances and counterbalances that developed between the various European powers after 1871.\n\n\nReasons and responsibilities\nThe reasons for the outbreak of World War I are a complicated issue; there are many factors which intertwine. Some examples are:\n\nFervent and uncompromising nationalism \nUnresolved previous disputes \nThe intricate system of alliances \nConvoluted and fragmented governance \nDelays and misunderstandings in diplomatic communications \nThe arms races of the previous decades. \nRigidity in military planning
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Hi there, \n\nThe First World War started on June 28, 1914 and it ended on November 11,1918 by the Treaty of Verssailles signed in the Mirrored Palace of Germany.\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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world war 1 : the assassination of Franz Ferdinand\nworld war 2 : i think it's that lots of countries didnt agree with the Nazis who were taking over Europe.. \n                     Hope this helps
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In which war, WWI or WWII?
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The previous answer is not quite true - as there was no such place as the Soviet Union during Napoleon's time.  Napoleon invaded Russia.\nThe Germans invaded the Soviet Union during World War II and were unsuccessful due to a combination of their own strategic incompetence and a particularaly bitter winter.\nI am fairly sure that during the lifetime of the Soviet Union no one invaded and took land from it.
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WWII's victors agreed that both Russia and China should become members of the U.N. Security Council. In terms of overall casualties in the war on the allies side, both Russia and China suffered the most.
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The First World War, or (before 1939) the Great War, was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice on November 11, 1918. The Allied Powers (led by the United Kingdom, France and until 1917 Russia , and, after 1917, the United States) defeated the Central Powers (led by the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire). \n\nThe Allies won.
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Japan & USSR.\n\nBut hostilities only lasted a few weeks (at War's end). Some historians would argue that the USSR declaration of war had as much to do with Japan's surrender as the two atomic bomb detonations.
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mine guess is Russia. in 1939 russia and germany sing a nonargession pact to not attack each other.\nwhen Germany invaded poland in step. 1939 russia did to.  Then in spring of 1941 german attack russia with operation barbarossa and russia becamed allies with england and later the US.
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The first world war was referred to both as \n' The Great War ' in old English referrence to large or of  moment, also, misleadingly, ' The War To End All Wars ' as the second world war disproved so effectively. It was called The Second World War from the start, I think. I prefer Archie Bunker's call on it:\n\n" Da big one. Douba - ya douba - ya two. "\n\nNo. I doubt there's going to be a WWIII. We all know it doesn't go out that way.