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The Polar Bear Expedition – Aide Memoire

The Secretary of State to the Allied Ambassadors: Aide Memoire           The whole heart of the people of the United States is in the winning of this war. The controlling purpose of the Government of the United States is to do everything that is necessary and...

The Polar Bear Expedition – The US Sits Out

The US was not interested in involving itself in a European Affair.  At least that was the consensus overall in the United States.  This feeling was especially strong in the West.  Woodrow Wilson seems to have been a dove with a hawk cabinet.  What changed the...

The Polar Bear Expedition

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent the Polar Bear Expedition to Russia in response to requests from the governments of Great Britain and France to join the Allied Intervention in North Russia (also known as the North Russia Campaign) Podcast: Play in new window |...