Civil War - Foreign Intervention

• France and Britain were at first willing to work with the Bolsheviks if they would continue the war with Germany.

  • When Lenin refused, they switched to supporting anti-Bolshevik forces.
  • The fact that the Bolsheviks would not honour foreign debts in 1919 provoked foreign powers.
• March 1918

  • British, French and American forces occupied the Arctic port of Murmansk and the White Sea port of Archangel.
• April 1918

  • Japan occupied the far-eastern port of Vladivostok.
• July 1918

  • The murder of the Tsar and his family by the Bolsheviks cause international outrage.
• August 1918

  • Units from France, Britain, the USA and Italy entered Vladivostok.
• January 1919

  • British battleships and troops help Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania defeat the Red Army and gain independence.
• 1919

  • Japan and the US occupy parts of Siberia.