Abstract
Three American armies invaded Europe in the years of World War I and in its aftermath—at least such was the account proposed in 1924 by the Serbian Child Welfare Association of America. First came the American Expeditionary Force, which entered the war in 1917 after the European combatants had been fighting for three years. The second “American army” was the American Relief Force that arrived after the armistice of November 11, 1918; the third was the “Army of Reconstruction.” And, according to the Serbian Child Welfare Association, “the first army helped to set Europe free; the second lifted her and set her on her feet; the third army started her on her way rejoicing toward a higher civilization.”1 As will become clear in this chapter, the activities of these three “armies” were not as clear-cut and distinct as portrayed here, nor were they necessarily separated and neatly sequenced, however it is not to be contested that during and after World War I a substantial number of Americans invaded Europe with notions of freedom, uplift, and civilization on their minds.
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Sobe, N.W. (2009). American Philanthropy and Reconstruction in Europe after World War I: Bringing the West to Serbia. In: Sobe, N.W. (eds) American Post-Conflict Educational Reform. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101456_4
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