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The Russo-Japanese War begins. Following the Russian rejection of a Japanese plan to divide Manchuria and Korea into spheres of influence, Japan launches a surprise naval attack against Port Arthur, a Russian naval base in China. The Russian fleet was decimated.
1 The war was caused by the expansionist desires of Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese imperialists. 2  Germany, Italy and Japan wanted to conquer new territories and enslave or exterminate the peoples living there. 3  The Great World Depression in 1929 became a very important cause of the war.