Question: What happened when the ruler during the first world war of the largest country in Asia was removed from power?

<P0-S0> Nicholas II -- last Czar of Russia, titular King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland. <P0-S1> His rule ended with the Russian Revolution. <P0-S2> Nicholas was killed on 17 July 1918. <SEP> <P1-S0> Rank Country Area (km2) Notes Russia * 13,100,000 17,125,200 including European part China 9,596,961 excludes Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and disputed areas / islands India 3,287,263 Kazakhstan * 2,455,034 2,724,902 km2 including European part Saudi Arabia 2,149,690 6 Iran 1,648,195 7 Mongolia 1,564,110 8 Indonesia * 1,472,639 1,904,569 km2 including Oceanian part 9 Pakistan 796,095 882,363 km2 including Gilgit - Baltistan and AJK 10 Turkey * 747,272 783,562 km2 including European part 11 Myanmar 676,578 12 Afghanistan 652,230 13 Yemen 527,968 14 Thailand 513,120 15 Turkmenistan 488,100 16 Uzbekistan 447,400 17 Iraq 438,317 18 Japan 377,930 19 Vietnam 331,212 20 Malaysia 330,803 21 Oman 309,500 22 Philippines 300,000 23 Laos 236,800 24 Kyrgyzstan 199,951 25 Syria 185,180 Includes the parts of the Golan Heights 26 Cambodia 181,035 27 Bangladesh 147,570 28 Nepal 147,181 29 Tajikistan 143,100 30 North Korea 120,538 31 South Korea 100,210 32 Jordan 89,342 33 Azerbaijan * 86,600 Sometimes considered part of Europe. <P1-S1> 34 United Arab Emirates 83,600 35 Georgia * 69,000 Sometimes considered part of Europe. <P1-S2> 36 Sri Lanka 65,610 37 Egypt * 60,000 1,002,450 km2 including African part 38 Bhutan 38,394 39 Taiwan 36,193 40 Armenia 29,843 Sometimes considered part of Europe. <P1-S3> 41 Israel 20,273 42 Kuwait 17,818 43 Timor - Leste 14,874 44 Qatar 11,586 45 Lebanon 10,452 46 Cyprus 9,251 5,896 km2 excluding Northern Cyprus. <P1-S4> Politically sometimes considered part of Europe. <P1-S5> 47 Palestine 6,220 48 Brunei 5,765 49 Bahrain 765 50 Singapore 716 51 Maldives 300 Total 44,579,000 <SEP> <P2-S0> japan used the name greater east asia war (大東亜戦争, dai tō-a sensō? <P2-S1> ), as chosen by a cabinet decision on 10 december 1941, to refer to both the war with the western allies and the ongoing war in china. <P2-S2> this name was released to the public on 12 december, with an explanation that it involved asian nations achieving their independence from the western powers through armed forces of the greater east asia co-prosperity sphere. <P2-S3> japanese officials integrated what they called the japan–china incident (日支事変, nisshi jihen?) <P2-S4> into the greater east asia war. <SEP> <P3-S0> when world war ii broke out in 1939, bergmann sought to join the south african army, but as he felt his name was too german-sounding (there was significant anti-german feeling as the war loomed, and as the nazi persecution of the jews and the holocaust had not yet happened, this feeling made no distinction between germans and german jews), he removed the second "n" from his name, adopting the dutch variation of the surname. <SEP> <P4-S0> The Russian Revolution is the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union. <P4-S1> Following the abdication of Nicholas II of Russia, the Russian Provisional Government was established. <P4-S2> In October 1917, a red faction revolution occurred in which the Red Guard, armed groups of workers and deserting soldiers directed by the Bolshevik Party, seized control of Saint Petersburg (then known as Petrograd) and began an immediate armed takeover of cities and villages throughout the former Russian Empire.