Anglo-Russian Agreement of 1907

Countries are entitled to their own individualized feelings concerning situations involving control but what is troubling is that there is an overwhelming influence that can affect an individual state. It may be hard for them because control requires rigorous and thoughtless decision making in regard for innocent people trying to live their lives. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Britain did not see the need to become a part of the entente with France and Russia. This was the start to many problems that arose during this time. The Anglo-Russian convention was just an agreement to prevent any conflict in Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet, but both sides thought they deserved it for European authority, regaining respect and terror of the emerging Germany

Towards the end of the 19th century, Russia’s position about Britain was increasingly becoming stronger. With the capabilities and success in conquering most of Central Asia, the Russians prolonged their authority to Manchuria and Korea, which bothered Japan and the British curiosities with China. Japan’s victory against Russia reassured the British that Russia was not as difficult intimating threat as they had first thought. At the same time a number of British politicians had developed a deep fear of Germany. The Anglo-Russian agreement of 1907 explains and determines the overwhelming concern regarding Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet in the prospective eye of the two feuding nations of Russia and England. It was signed on August 31 of that year, in St. Petersburg, Russia. It finally brought changes to the political unjust that had transpired in the Far East, the Middle East and Europe as a result of the Russo-Japanese war and the Russian revolution of 1905. Anglo-Russian opp...

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