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If Lenin had not returned to Russia after the czar stepped down, Alexander Kerensky may have prevailing with regards to keeping Russia in WWI.
He may have lasted as prime minister for significantly more time and the war may have finished sooner than 11/1918 with the U.S. entering in 1917.
1. Russia has thousands of miles of coastline, but good harbors for ports are another deal. Much of the coastline is north of the Artic Circle making trade and use of the ports near impossible. Russia has had to fight and negotiate to gain and or keep access to more southerly ports such as Vladivostock on the Pacific and Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea. Even ports and areas such as the Crimean Penninsula are important for trade access to the Mediterranean and out to the Atlantic.
The correct answer is B) They were the last battles of the war and resulted in the Confederacy's surrender. The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War and the Battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle fought during the war and had the highest number of casualties. They both happened in the month of July in 1863.
The emancipation proclamation was signed on January 1st 1863 (three years into the war)
