Czar Nicholas II Impact

There were a lot of figures and events that contributed to the starting of World War I. These people not only affected the war, but they were often changed themselves. Czar Nicholas II is an example of an individual who helped spark World War I. However, more notably, he is also an example of how the war affected him in ways much larger than the way he impacted it. Czar Nicholas II, also known as Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov, was born on 18 May 1868. Czar Alexander III, Nicholas’s father, died with kidney diseased at the age of 49, and Nicholas II “succeeded his father in 1894” (NicholasII BBC). Czar Nicholas II was neither trained nor ready to rule Russia. Even though as kid, he had private tutors, his father did not inform or teach him
Czar Nicholas II called upon Grigory Rasputin, a faith healer, to help and heal Alexei. Rasputin managed to control and stop Alexei’s hemorrhaging, in repayment for his work, he received the trust of Nicholas II and Alexander. Despite Czar Nicholas II’s lack of confidence and experience in ruling, Russia’s industry still managed to expand into the Far East during the 1890s. This lead to some conflict and a competition between the Japanese and the Russians. Both nations wanted power over Korea and Manchuria and this was the main cause of the Russo-Japanese War. In 1898, Russia had taken advantage of “a Chinese Empire that had grown politically and economically weak” (Moore Russo-Japanese). Russia was able to persuade the ruling Qing dynasty to grant it a sphere of interest in the Liao dong Peninsula in southern Manchuria. Because of this, Russia was able to gain access to Port Luther and it became Russia’s naval base. Russia was also able to gain the right to extend a branch of the Trans-Siberian railroad across northern Manchuria to link the railroad to its seaport at Vladivostok (Moore Russo-Japanese). Not only that, but