Nicholas II was the last Czar of Russia from 1894 until 1917 when he was forced to abdicate. He was the leader of Russia during a turbulent time when the Russian society was ready for the changes he was not willing to make. Nicholas II would lead Russia into War World I as the commander of the Russian army despite his qualifications to do so. He wouldn’t back down from war and let his country slide into worsening circumstances which would eventually lead to his abdication and the revolutionary takeover of Russia.
2. Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson was the President of the United States of America from 1913 until 1921, the period during which the First World War would occur. Wilson would keep America out of the war until …show more content…
No one was safe as an accused person could lead to the deaths of not only the person, but also to very distant connections of all the people they knew. There were trials where people confessed to plotting to destroy the communist government and its efforts throughout the country, but most of the time the conspiracies were falsified as the accused were tortured until confessing to the crime they were told they had committed. Many people were killed during the Great Purges and many were sent to the gulags to complete works for the industrialization of the …show more content…
Certain actions would strengthen the hawks while others would strengthen the doves of the country. The Great Powers began making concessions to the countries such as Germany and their leaders in order to keep them in power instead of creating conditions which would strengthen what they deemed the more dangerous politicians. The appeasements would result in the decline of the Treaty of Versailles as Germany was allowed to take actions which otherwise would have been seen as a threat to a treaty in order to keep the doves in control as their reasoning behind their actions was