4. The Russo-Japanese War
Area of Study 1: Russia
Date
“We need a small, victorious war to avert a
revolution.”
Attributed to Plehve (Interior Minister of Russia).
In this lesson you will...
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Revise some of the features of the Ancient Regime of Russia.
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Examine why Russia went to war with Japan in 1904.
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Examine the outcome of the war with Japan in 1905.
1. Revision
Sequence Strips
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Write down the 15 aspects of the Ancient Regime of Russia.
2. The Stage is Set for War with
Japan
Let’s Read
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Pages 41-2 of Spirit of Change
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Page 31 of Reinventing Russia “The Three aims of War with Japan.
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Update your notes on the Russian-Japanese War.
Farmer Japan
(1904)
1. Identify the two nations
depicted in this cartoon.
2. Identify two ways the
cartoonist has suggested Russia
wants to expand its Empire.
3. Identify two ways the
cartoonist has suggested Japan
does not want Russia to
expand its Empire.
3. War with Japan
Let’s Read
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Pages 31-3 of Reinventing Russia
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Update your notes on the Russian-Japanese War.
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Look at source 5.1.2 in Spirit of Change and answer the following
questions:
4. Identify two features the artist has used to suggest that the Japanese
were victorious over the Russian Navy.
A Russian soldier states “Oh you funny Japs, always making
mistakes...Thank you for the badly aimed shells which help me light
my pipe.”
5. How do you think this view resulted in Russian defeat?
Have you?
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Revised some of the features of the Ancient Regime of Russia?
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Examined why Russia went to war with Japan in 1904? Chronology
of events that led to the Revolution.
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Examined the outcome of the war with Japan in 1905? Causes of
tensions in the old Regime that led to the Revolution