anagement of factories. The Bolsheviks then went on to nationalize all the banks, urging all common citizens to loot the looters, and take property that was rightfully theirs from the bourgeois.
             Although clearly popular with the masses, the decrees were opposed by the Socialist Revolutionaries. They felt that once these decrees became known to the public masses, there would be social chaos and economic catastrophe. The Socialist Revolutionaries also didn't appreciate that the Bolsheviks had ignored all demands for free press, free trade unions and free elections. The complaints of the Socialists forced the Bolsheviks into holding a constituent assembly to vote on the political future of Russia. The outcome of the assembly was overwhelmingly anti-Bolshevik. The Bolsheviks, not content with admitting defeat and going home, immediately dissolved the assembly. Soldiers were sent in killing at least twenty people and that evening, Bolshevik soldiers beat to death two leading Cadets.
             The two sides of the Civil War had been set. On one side was the White Army, the color white unintentionally representative of their "good guy" status. On the other side was the Red Army of the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks, officially representing communism, also represented, based on the recent events, social chaos, and cruelty. President Wilson, of the United States, did not have a hard time deciding which side he would prefer end up being victorious. The only dilemma Wilson faced was whether to intervene behalf of the White Army or not.
             Upon the United States entering WWI, President Wilson and Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, met to decide what the goals of the United States should be in the war. They decided that the main goal of the United States was to be economic expansion. Wilson believed that no nation could be considered free unless they possessed economic freedom as well. Therefore, the United States, now as "The Land of th...