HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
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Lenin was an enemy of the U.S. during WWI.
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the White Army owed the United States loan payments from WWI and they were afraid that if they lost they would lose out on repayments.
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the Allies feared the spread of communism and thought they could get Russia back in to WWI with a white army victory.
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the Red Army’s poor performance in WWI forced the allies to pick the White Army in hopes they would fight better,
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Detailed explanation-1: -The United States responded to the Russian Revolution of 1917 by participating in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War with the Allies of World War I in support of the White movement, in seeking to overthrow the Bolsheviks.
Detailed explanation-2: -The White armies (also known as the ‘White Guards’ or ‘Whites’) were counter-revolutionary groups that participated in the Russian Civil War. These White armies fought against the Bolshevik Red Army for control of Russia.
Detailed explanation-3: -Britain and France actively supported attempts to overthrow the Bolsheviks, with President Woodrow Wilson of the United States in reluctant support, against the advice of his own War Department. Yet by far the largest intervention force was the 70, 000-strong Japanese one, and their crusade was anything but ideological.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the civil war that followed the revolution, why did the Allies give aid to the anti-Communist forces? The Allies gave aid to anti-Communist forces in Russia’s civil war with the hopes that Russia would rejoin the effort against Germany and Austria-Hungary.