were getting low on resources, and agreed for President Roosevelt to mediate. This lead to the Treaty of Portsmouth, which resulted in the following terms:
             1 – Russia recognized Korea as a Japanese sphere of influence
             2 – The Liaotung Peninsula and the South Manchurian Railway went to Japan.
             3 – Northern Manchuria and the Chinese Eastern Railway remained under Russian control.
             4 - The island of Sakhalin was divided into two.
             The Russians were defeated as a result of them badly underestimating the Japanese. The newly formed Union of Liberation organized anti – government meetings, their policy was to rid Russia of the autocracy, and they demanded the setting up of a parliament, universal suffrage , freedom of the press, religion and assembly. The defeat led to the development of an opposition movement that for a time included almost all sectors of Russian society. The Russian people were defeated and angry as a result of the Tsars naiveness, and began to make public displays of their views. A strike broke out in early January 1905, at a factory in St Petersburg. This was a result of four workers getting sacked for belonging to an illegal association. Over 120,000 factory workers participated, and the leader of the organisation, Father Gapon, appealed to the Tsar with a petition outlining their wants. Unsurprisingly the Tsar ignored the requests, and left the Winter Palace to join his family. Also in January 1905, in an event that became known as Bloody Sunday, unarmed crowds demanding radical constitutional and s
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