American Relief Administration

American Relief Administration was an American relief mission to Europe and later Soviet Russia after World War I. Herbert Hoover, future president of the United States, was the program director.The ARA's immediate predecessor was Committee for Relief in Belgium, also headed by Hoover, which fed seven million Belgians and two million northern French during World War I. In the immediate aftermath of the war, the ARA delivered more than four million tons of relief supplies to twenty-three war-torn European countries.
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