American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)

Examples of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in the following topics:

• The War in France

  • The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) served alongside the French and British armies on the Western Front.
  • The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) were the United States troops, often called “Doughboys”, sent to fight in France alongside the British and French armies against Germany under the command of Major General John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing.
  • Based on their success, European powers late in the war requested the aid of American units in Italy, as well as in Russia, where they were known as the American Expeditionary Force Siberia and the American Expeditionary Force North Russia.
  • This photograph depicts officers in the American Expeditionary Forces.
  • Summarize the role and battle approach of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France.

• America's Early Role

  • Entering as an "associate power," the US mobilized a force of 2.8 million soldiers and, by 1918, US forces were fully engaged in the war.
  • American entry into World War I resulted in the American Expeditionary Force being engaged in 13 campaigns, during the period from 1917–1918.
  • The American Expeditionary Forces, or AEF, were the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe in World War I .
  • During the United States campaigns in World War I, the AEF fought in France alongside French and British allied forces against Imperial German forces in the last year of the war.
  • This photograph depicts officers in the American Expeditionary Forces.

• The Call to Arms

  • President Wilson instituted a draft to catch up to larger European military forces, resulting in the American Expeditionary Force.
  • By 1916, it had become clear that any American participation in the European conflict would require a far larger fighting force.
  • American entry into the war, therefore, was taken up by what became known as the American Expeditionary Force.
  • From 1917–1918, the AEF took part in 13 military campaigns against the Imperial German Army alongside French and British forces.
  • Officers of the American Expeditionary Force, who would become crucial to the Allied war in Europe by 1918.

• The Spanish-American War

  • The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States (effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence).
  • American attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions led to involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Philippine–American War.
  • After the mysterious sinking of the American USS Maine in Havana harbor, political pressures from the Democratic Party forced Republican President William McKinley's administration into a war he had wished to avoid.
  • American naval power proved decisive, allowing U.S. expeditionary forces to disembark in Cuba against a Spanish garrison, already reeling from nationwide insurgent attacks and decimated by yellow fever.
  • Cuban, Philippine, and American forces obtained the surrender of Santiago de Cuba and Manila.

• France and Spain in the Revolutionary War

  • Following the 1778 Treaty of Alliance, France openly provided arms and funding to the Americans and engaged in full-scale war with Britain.
  • In 1782, Minorca surrendered to a combined Franco-Spanish force, restoring the territory to Spain nearly 80 years after it had initially been captured by the British.The French navy provided valuable assistance to the Patriots and engaged British naval forces several times in 1778 and 1779, in European and North American waters.
  • In 1780, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, was appointed commander-in-chief of the French Expeditionary Force.
  • In mid-August 1781, Washington and Rochambeau led the Celebrated March of combined Franco-American forces towards Virginia and the siege of Yorktown.
  • The comte de Rochambeau served as commander-in-chief of the French Expeditionary Force, which supported the Continental Army.

• Slowing Momentum

  • The Battle of Stalingrad and setbacks in the North Africa Campaign represented a major defeat for the Axis forces.
  • The Battle of Stalingrad and setbacks in the North Africa Campaign represented a major defeat for the Axis forces.
  • In Libya,the Afrika Korps (the German expeditionary force in Libya and Tunisia during the North African Campaign) failed to break through the line at First Battle of El Alamein (July 1-27 1942), having suffered repercussions from the Battle of Stalingrad .
  • In November 1942, the Wehrmacht and the Italian Army retreated to Tunisia, where they fought the Americans and the British in the Tunisia Campaign (November 17, 1942–May 13, 1943).
  • In June 1944, American, British, and Canadian forces established the western front with the D-Day(June 6, 1944) landings in Normandy, France.

• The Bolsheviks

  • Severely short of troops to spare, the British and French requested that President Wilson provide American soldiers for the campaign.
  • Army troops in this campaign, which become known as the American North Russia Expeditionary Force and the American Expeditionary Force Siberia.
  • After the end of the war in Europe and the defeat of the Central Powers, the Allies openly supported the anti-Bolshevik White forces, who were ultimately defeated.
  • Allied forces carried out a small-scale intervention in Russia after Russia withdrew from World War I.

• The Spanish–American War

  • American attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions led to involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Philippine–American War.
  • American naval power proved decisive, allowing U.S. expeditionary forces to disembark in Cuba against a Spanish garrison already reeling from nationwide insurgent attacks and wasted by yellow fever.
  • The Spanish-American War was swift and decisive.
  • Cuban, Philippine, and American forces obtained the surrender of Santiago de Cuba and Manila owing to their numerical superiority in most of the battles and despite the good performance of some Spanish infantry units and spirited defenses in places like San Juan Hill.
  • The war marked American entry into world affairs.

• Georgia and South Carolina

  • On December 29, 1778, a British expeditionary corps of 3,500 men from New York under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell captured Savannah, Georgia.
  • In October 1779, French and Revolutionary forces attempted to retake Savannah.
  • Under the leadership of General Benjamin Lincoln, this effort was a spectacular failure with combined French-American forces suffering approximately 900 casualties compared to 50 British casualties.
  • The loss of the city and its troops was a serious blow to the American cause because it temporarily collapsed American military operations in the South.
  • Nathanael Greene, supported by 2,600 troops, engaged 2,000 British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Stewart.

• The Bonus Army

  • Waters, a former Army sergeant, the organizers referred to it as the Bonus Expeditionary Force to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Force, while the media called it the Bonus March.