The correct answer is <span>Expansion took over land occupied by non-Russian groups, increasing tensions.
They took numerous areas in their expansion, mostly on the eastern side towards Alaska and on the South towards China and Turkey. This caused a lot of tension and rebellions and things like that among the varied population which was more or less solved when the communists came and made the country into the Soviet Union.</span>
I understand the war is the World War I. The assassination (of Austrian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand) led to the Ultimatum (from Austria to the Kindom of Serbia) and the rejection of this ultimatum by Serbia led to Austria-Hungary declaring war (into which later other countries joined).
George Washington was the very first President
