World War I, US Participation in the Archangel Expedition / Great Neck Publishing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Great Neck Publishing, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--United States.

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

World War I, U.S. Participation in the Archangel Expedition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Great Neck Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

The Archangel Expedition, also known as the Polar Bear Expedition, was the posting of about five thousand US troops to the Russian city of Arkhangelsk (Archangel) to support the anti-Bolshevik White Army during the Russian Civil War, safeguard the passage of Czechoslovak troops out of the country, and safeguard the Allied military stockpiles in key Russian ports. An additional eight thousand troops were sent elsewhere in Russia. The United States and the other Allies were reluctant to involve themselves in the Russian Civil War, which broke out following the Russian Revolution in 1917, but they were also concerned about inroads that Germany was making in the area, particularly in the Ukraine and Finland. In this July 1918 letter from US secretary of state Robert Lansing to the Allied ambassadors, he sets out President Woodrow Wilson's willingness to send American troops to Arkhangelsk, but only if their role was restricted to guarding supplies. Wilson's concern about the Russian intervention becoming a larger conflict was clear in his refusal to participate in the conflict if it grew beyond this stated intent, but he was also eager to make his philosophical support for anti-Bolshevik forces clear.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Great Neck Publishing, viewed March 8, 2023).