Foreign Intervention

What foreign intervention occured in January 1918?

Arrival of Japanese warship at Vladivostok

What foreign intervention occured in March 1918

Treaty of Brest Litovsk, first british forces sent to Murmansk, start of a naval blockade of trade and shipping going to Soviet Russia

What foreign intervention occured in November 1918?

3 day battle on the archangel’sk front, Baku occupied by a British force, allied forces landed in the black sea

What foreign intervention occured in february 1919?

arrival of german forces in latvia oppose the red army

What foreign intervention occured in March 1919?

Bullitt peace mission to get Lenin to reach peace, terms rejected by the allies

What foreign intervention occured in June 1919?

evacuation of US troops from Archangel’sk

What foreign intervention occured in August 1919?

british naval asault on Soviet battle fleet at petrograd

What foreign intervention occured in January 1920?

allied governments call off the blockade

What foreign intervention occured in March 1920

defeated white army evacuated by british naval ships

What foreign intervention occured in June 1920?

polish armies in Ukraine defeated by red army

What foreign intervention occured in August 1920?

red army invasion of Poland halted?

What foreign intervention occured in November 1920?

trade agreements with Russia authorised by british gov, recognition of Bolshevik state

Why did foreign intervention first occur?

in response to the civil war

What was foreign intervention actually like?

widespread areas of conflict, large geographical scope but a small number of troops

What did foreign intervention feel like to the bolsheviks?

A SUPER MASSIVE THREAT!!!!!

What reasons were there for foreign intervention?

keep Russia in WW2, protect the vast dumps of armaments and war materials, support anti-bolshevik forces, divisions in government

What foreign intervention occured in the north?

british navy patrolled the baltic sea, austrialan, canadian forces at Archangel’sk with 11,000 estonian troops in the war of independence

What foreign intervention occured in the far east?

11,000 troops at Vladivostok, 2000 chinese troops and a small british, substantial JApanese forces invaded esatern Siberia

What foreign intervention occured in the Southern Russia, Ukraine, black sea and Caspian sea?

french and british naval forces, turkish troops active in the Causcaus

What foreign intervention occured in the Central Siberia?

sections of the trans siberian railway controlled by the Czech legion

Which three american journalists were spies?

John Reed, Louis Bryant and Bessie Beaty

Who were the three British spies?

Arthur Ransome, Sidney Reilly and Robert Bruce Lockhart

WHat dod historians say about the impact of foreign intervention?

Bolsheviks were convinced the bolsheviks fought off a major imperialstic assault, Kennan claimed that relations were poisined between Soviet Russia and the west, others suggest relations would be the same anyway

What was Lenin’s peace offer in March 1919?

US President Wilson sent Bullitt on a secret mission to discuss peace, lenin worried about an anti- bolshevik victory in the civil war so lenin was prepared to tolerate some parts of the anti-bolshevik gov in an exchange for the end of a blockade and a ceasefire, Britain and France were hostile to the idea and Wilson wouldn’t back the proposal