Overthrow of the Russian monarchy and withdrawal from World War I.
In 1917, Nicholas II abdicated (step down) from his thrown and gave by control of the monarchy for himself and his son. This allowed for a new nationalist government to take control.
The new government was then overthrown by the Lenin led Communist Party.
In regards, to World War I, after Nicholas stepped down, Russia signed a peace treaty with Germany and left the war before their other allies. They lost western lands in Russia but were able to save their military from a horrible showing on the Eastern Front.
France and Britain responded to the Emancipation Proclamation by refusing to recognize the Confederacy. declaring their support for slavery in the South. forming a trade alliance with the Confederacy. sending ambassadors to settle the Civil War.
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The motivations for the first wave of colonial expansion can be summed up as God, Gold, and Glory: God, because missionaries felt it was their moral duty to spread Christianity, and they believed a higher power would reward them for saving the souls of colonial subjects; gold, because colonizers would exploit resources
Explanation:
The "Palestinians" of the time were everybody who lived in the British mandate ... Jews, Arabs, Christians, and others, all of them 'Palestinians'. The surrounding Arab nations opposed the UN resolution to divide the mandate and I give the Jews administrative control over any of it. The Jews declared their piece to be a state. The Arabs didn't. And five Arab nations massed their military forces, and attacked Israel. Even though Israel was only days old, and had no army or air Force, the attackers failed to conquer Israel. That was almost 70 years ago. In that time, they have never absorbed the Arabs who left Israel, they have not built their own state, they still don't want Israel to exist, they have attacked it two more times, and now they teach their children to hate all Jews.
