The Russo-Japanese War (Which Russia lost - making Nicholas unpopular with the Russian people) World War I (but the Tsar abdicated and was murdered before the war's end)
Nicholas II Romanov was the Tsar during World War 1 until he abdicated the throne in March 1917.
World War I wasn't the most destructive war. World War II was. World War II had over eight times as many casualties as World War I and also brought total war to a whole new level. It completely put Europe in ruins, but World War II was definitely the war to end all wars. After that came the Cold War, which was just political disagreement with words thrown around.
The Russia monarchy was already unpopular. The government was spending money on the war that people believed should have gone to the poor. The war was doing nothing for the Russian people except killing citizens. And the tsar refused to surrender. That triggered the revolution.
It's the second biggest World War in history (after WWII). Millions died. It was the end of the Tsar in Russia, and many colonial empires around the world. It introduced the tank to land warfare, and was a massive upheaval from the world that preceded it.
Nicholas II was the Tsar of Russia at the beginning of the war.
Tsar Nicholas
Tsar Nicholas II was the leader of Tsarist Russia in World War 1.
Yes, Until 1917 at which point he abdicated and the provincial government took over.
Two wars were going on when Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered by the Bolsheviks in July 1918. They were World War 1 and the Russian Civil War. Although Russia was out of World War 1 by that time, the war did not end until November 11, 1918. The Russian Civil War had just begun as a full fledged civil war in June 1918.
Because communists took over the control of Russia from the Tsar. Communists were against war with Germany and hence agreed to end the war with Germany after they took the reign of Russia.
Tsar Nicholas II
The Russo-Japanese War (Which Russia lost - making Nicholas unpopular with the Russian people) World War I (but the Tsar abdicated and was murdered before the war's end)
Nicholas II Romanov was the Tsar during World War 1 until he abdicated the throne in March 1917.
The official "first" Tsar was Ivan IV even though Ivan III referred to himself at times as Tsar. Ivan IV was the first person crowned as Tsar. The Tsar immediately before the Revolution was Tsar Nicholas II.
The Tsar wasn't weakened by World War One, he was overthrown, arrested and executed as a result of it. The entire Royal household was also executed to prevent a reinstatement. Centuries of oppression of the Russian people by the Tsar's was brought to a head by the deaths of so many Russian troops and the hardships that occurred at home. An extremely embarrassing and expensive defeat of the Russian Navy by the Japanese in a brief war prior to World War One set the stage, and the 1914 war proved to be the tipping point.
The Russian leader at the start of the war was Tsar Nicholas II. The Tsar was overthrown by the Bolsheviks in the 1917 Revolution, whose leader, Lenin, took Russia out of the war after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany.