What were the causes of the Crimean War?

*Russia was expanding south into the Mediterranean which led to some interference with the Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

*Russia was trying to establish a unilateral protectorate over the weakening Ottoman Empire. Eventually this led to the conflict of the Crimean War.

*Great Britain and France feared that Russia was gaining too much power, so they declared war on Russia in 1854.

Describe the effects of the Crimean War?

*Revealed the weakness of the Russian empire

*Russia's economy could not support the tsars' and the war showed the weakness of Russia in economy of free labor

*Military defeat compelled the tsars to rethink the Russian social order and start brewing up a reconstruction plan

Cause and Effect of the Crimean War

By: Alex Freeman