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The American Expeditionary Force, Siberia (AEF in Siberia) was a formation of the United States Army involved in the Russian Civil War in Vladivostok, Russia, after the October Revolution, from 1918 to 1920. The force was part of the larger Allied North Russia intervention.
Two months after the November 11, 1918, armistice that officially ended the war for the rest of Europe, as one million Americans in France were preparing to sail home, the U.S. troops in Russia...
In early 1918, forces of the Central Powers invaded Russia, occupying extensive territory, [25] and threatening to capture Moscow and to impose pliant regimes. Lenin wanted to negotiate with Germany, but failed to get approval from his council until late February.
From late summer 1918 to early spring 1920, the United States and other Allied nations engaged in combat operations against Bolshevik forces around Archangel in North Russia and around Vladivostok in far off Siberia.
A century ago, American troops were in combat against the Bolsheviks on Russian soil. Armed with American-made Model 1891 Mosin-Nagants, the soldiers of the 339th Regiment faced the bitter...
The American Expeditionary Force, North Russia (AEF in North Russia) (also known as the Polar Bear Expedition) was a contingent of about 5,000 United States Army troops [1] that landed in Arkhangelsk, Russia as part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
Around 5,000 American soldiers were part of an allied expedition to intervene in the ongoing Russian civil war against the "Red" Bolshevik forces. For a little over a year, the American...
U.S. soldiers and their allies in northern Russia, November 1918. The Americans fought under British command as part of a multinational expeditionary force. French troops were sent to Russia...
After many months of prodding by America’s Allies and top advisers in the State Department, President Woodrow Wilson agreed in early July 1918 to permit limited U.S. participation in an Allied expedition to Siberia.
Wilson decided in July 1918 to dispatch contingents of American troops to north Russia and Siberia. The memory of the participation of these troops in the Russian Civil War has remained an irritant in relations between the Soviet Union and the United States. Why were American troops sent?