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Siberian intervention
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<p>The Siberian intervention or Siberian expedition of 1918–1922 was the dispatch of troops of the <a href="/facts/Allies_of_World_War_I/HBo9sw1M">Entente powers</a> to the Russian <a href="/facts/Primorsky_Krai/a0gC2rCJ">Maritime Provinces</a> as part of a <a href="/facts/Allied_intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War/VYTPcKw3">larger effort by the western powers, Japan, and China</a> to support <a href="/facts/White_movement/lAGgYPBE">White Russian</a> forces and the <a href="/facts/Czechoslovak_Legion/rDvkW9WK">Czechoslovak Legion</a> against <a href="/facts/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic/W9pC4bK6">Soviet Russia</a> and its allies during the <a href="/facts/Russian_Civil_War/MLfkI67n">Russian Civil War</a>. The <a href="/facts/Imperial_Japanese_Army/11l04P9p">Imperial Japanese Army</a> continued to occupy Siberia even after other Allied forces withdrew in 1920. </p>