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• Czech Legion

  Czechoslovak corps, around 40,000 strong, as part of the old Russian army's forces during World War I
• Evacuation of the Czech Legion

  Bolsheviks agreed to evacuate them through Vladivostok to join the Allied armies on the Western Front
• The Czech Legion was in the process of moving along the Trans-Siberian Railway

  Spring of 1918
• Incidents (and possibly German demands) led the Communist regime

  To order the disarmament of the Czech Legion
• Czech Uprising

  1. The disarmament order caused the Czech Legion to rebel

  2. They seized control of the railway

  3. They extended armed support to anti-Communist movements

  4. They helped establish anti-Soviet regimes in Siberia (Omsk) and the Volga region (Samara)
• The Czech Legion's actions were supported by the Western powers