Question

What part did the defeat of russia by japan in 1905 play in the origins of world war i?

Answer 1

  The Russian empire under Tsar Nicholas  ii changed her focus from  the lost Manchuria and Korea region to the Balkans states. This renewed an old rivalry with the Austria Hungary empire which also had a distinctive interest in the region. while the war was declared on Siberia, after the assassination of Ferdinard and his wife Sophie, the main target of the war was Russia.