Siberian Intervention/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Siberian Intervention.

After the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia's separate peace with Germany, the Western Allies and Japan sent troops to Siberia in August 1918, to support White Russian forces against the Bolshevik Red Army during the Russian Civil War; non-Japanese troops stayed until 1920 and Japan withdrew in 1920, although the event would remain an argument for the Japanese Strike-North Faction