Railroads and Steamships The second Industrial Revolution was also a transportation revolution. ... The Revolution Spreads Up until 1850, Britain was the only country to have industrialized signifacntly. ... Russia Russia was the slowest major European nation to industrialize, due to its autocratic government and the fact that the majority of its people were serfs tied to the land. ... The Industrial Revolution changed the perception of middle class women. ... Scientific Ideas The Industrial Revolution managed to catalyze dramatic advances in scientific knowledge. ...

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The brink of the French Revolution saw the fall of Louis XVI, and with his kingship lost, the path was clear for the rise of a powerful and influential military commander; Napoleon Bonaparte. ... Following Russia's renewed trade with the British, Napoleon pressed for invasion of Russia. ... The brink of the French Revolution saw the fall of Louis XVI. ... Napoleon Bonaparte rose as the emperor of France in the latter stages of the French Revolution. ... Following Russia's renewed trade with the British, Napoleon pressed for invasion of Russia. ...

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In the early part of the twentieth century, militarism was as prominent as ever, with the recent industrial revolution being the main factor. ... The other alliance: The Triple Entente, was made up of Great Britain, France and Russia. ... The Triple Entente was completed when Russia joined in 1907. ... Russia responded to this attack by partially mobilising and going to war against Austria-Hungary in order to protect their Slavic relatives, which was followed by Germany's demand that Russia demobilise immediately. The Russians refused Germany's demand and the Kaiser declared war ...

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The State System in this arena was affected by Industrial Revolution, representative governments, political changes, growth of international law, emergence of international organization, economic interdependence, revolution in the means of transport and communication. ... British, Russia. ... Russia got Finland and most of Poland. ... Two wars were fought Crimean war (1854-1856) between Russia and alliances of Britain and France. ... Great Britain, France and Russia formed triple entete (1907). ...

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To what extent did Russia become a "Westernised power" during his reign? ... His main concern was with Russia's military power. It seemed to Peter that Russia had missed out on the "military revolution" which had changed European warfare so drastically in the 16th and 17th centuries. ... From the bloody war Russia emerged as a definite European power. ... In addition to this he created Russia's first printing press, through these presses along with the creation of more libraries, universities and institutes he brought to Russia many ideas from the Renaissance, which until this time h...

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Considering these tensions of division, it illustrates the 'historical individuality' that various nation states had acquired, including Russia, Germany, England and France, thus the difficulty in any chances of unification as a European empire. ... Considering revolutions were taking place throughout Europe, it accounted for further tensions – Already the revolutions in Spain, the Two Sicilies and Greece in 1820-21, and later in the 1830's and 1840's claims for German and somewhat later Italian unification challenged the principles laid down in Vienna. ... Thus t...

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Although the growth of armies pushed Austria, Russia, and Prussia toward becoming military autocracies, Prussia most clearly exemplifies the extent to which this process could be carried out by determined rulers. ... She came to the throne after the made empress Elizabeth, who followed Peter the Great, who some historians call GREAT because the reformed the Russian government enough so that it could go on without him. During the next 37 years, six tsars ruled Russia: three women, a boy of 12, an infant, and a mental weakling, as one contemporary observed. His expansion of economic resources...

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The balance of power of European states changed from 1848 to 1914 because of revolutions and certain unifications. ... The unification of Germany started with the Austro-Prussian War in which the German states were in a political stalemate as Austria and Russia blocked Prussian king Frederick William IV's attempt to unify Germany. ... The Revolutions of 1848 were the product of mounting social and political tensions after the Congress of Vienna and pushing the Austrian Empire further away from Enlightenment ideas. ... Tension came when Catholicism and other organized religions created mor...

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Europe was not a particularly hospitable environment for this agricultural revolution. ... It was westward to this agricultural society "but also south-eastwards through Iran to India "that several millennia later successive waves of a people, whom we call Indo-Europeans, migrated from the steppes of southern Russia. ... It may have been the Indo-European people's mastery of the horse "which was domesticated some 5000 years ago in or near their south Russian homeland "that enabled them to secure almost total cultural and linguistic dominance over the indigenous peoples...

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Meanwhile, back home, women experienced a revolution of their own "with husbands and sons off in battle, females had access to jobs that had never been available to them before, and the staunch, determined attitude personified by "Rosie the Riveter-, their mascot, defines how important this movement became. ... And such was the end of an era of war but with it came a new era of uncertainty and fear, as the enormous Socialist state of the Soviet Union, formerly Russia, rose to become an opposing superpower to America. ...

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Dictatorships and Totalitarian rules were established in the countries of Russia, Italy and Germany. ... The industrialisation of both China and Japan owe its revolution to America and Europe, therefore you can find European institutions within South-East Asia, which makes trading not such a foreign experience, or in other words, even our newly found friends have been influenced by Europe in some time in their history. ...

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