In World War I the United States declaration of war on Germany (1917) came after the Czar was overthrown in the February Revolution. When the Czar was still in power, many Americans deplored fighting a war with him as an ally. With him gone, the Woodrow Wilson administration used this new provisional government to describe how the new democratic nations are fighting against autocratic old empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary. During the war, the American Expeditionary Forces were just starting to see battle when the October Revolution removed Russia from the war.