During World War II Sweden joined neither the allied nor axis powers.

The Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) (originally briefly styled Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers) was the title held by General Douglas MacArthur during the Allied occupation of Japan following World War II.

There was an allied invasion of Sicily during World War II starting on 10 July 1943.

At the end of the First Punic War it was a free city allied with Rome.

During World War II, Sofia was bombed by Allied aircraft in late 1943 and early 1944.

France was allied with Russia and so was ready to commit to war against the German Empire.

Operation Dragoon was the Allied invasion of southern France on 15 August 1944, during World War II.

These were the Platine War, the Uruguayan War and the devastating Paraguayan War, the largest war effort in Brazilian history.

Civilian casualties include deaths caused by strategic bombing, Holocaust victims, German war crimes, Japanese war crimes, population transfers in the Soviet Union, Allied war crimes, and deaths due to war related famine and disease.

World War II Despite the country's numerically small and ill equipped armed forces, Greece made a decisive contribution to the Allied efforts in World War II.

During World War II, Koreans at home were forced to support the Japanese war effort.

Allied diplomacy was able to bring Romania into the war in 1916 but this proved disastrous for the Romanians.

The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe.

This effort was undertaken by citizens to reduce pressure on food production that was to support the war effort.

She later joined the British military, allied with Dutch forces against the French (this could have been during the Nine Years War or during the War of the Spanish Succession).

The islanders enjoyed safety at sea during World War II, as their merchant fleet sailed for both the Allied countries and Germany.

The emancipation of slaves was now part of the national war effort.

Iraq's economy deteriorated during the war, and the country became dependent on foreign donations to fund their war effort.

In 1668, England allied itself with Sweden, and with its former enemy the Netherlands, to oppose Louis XIV in the War of Devolution.

Serbia won the first major battles of World War I, including the Battle of Cer and Battle of Kolubara marking the first Allied victories against the Central Powers in World War I.

During World War II, Augusta was invaded on July 13, 1943 by the Eighth Army of the Allied troops led by British General Montgomery.

Operation Market Garden (17 25 September 1944) was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War.

Convinced that every effort should be made to avoid nuclear war and nuclear terrorism,

Convinced that every effort should be made to avoid nuclear war and nuclear terrorism,

The creation of a handful of agencies helped funnel resources towards the war effort.

By 1918, 90 percent of Dow Chemical production was geared towards the war effort.

America's recovery from unpopular policies in the past, such as the Vietnam War, took place against the backdrop of the Cold War, in which allied countries feared the Soviet Union as a greater evil.

Many foreign armies warred against the Red Army, notably the Allied Forces, yet many volunteer foreigners fought in both sides of the Russian Civil War.

The day and night air battles over Germany during war involved thousands of aircraft, units and aerial engagements to counter the Allied strategic bombing campaign.

The BBC has provided background on the Colonial contributions to the British Empire war effort.

During World War II, Allied soldiers occupied Iran, using the country as a way station to transport supplies from the Persian Gulf to the Soviet Union.

The bank played an important role in financing Canada's war effort during World War II by printing money and buying the government's debt.

But, as in Colombia, the effort to militarize the war on drugs and the war on terrorism seems likely only to generate more disorder.

As an Allied victory was won in Europe, a 1945 international conference held in San Francisco produced the United Nations Charter, which became active after the war.

The short lived pro Nazi government of Iraq was defeated in May 1941 by the allied forces (with local Assyrian and Kurdish help) in Anglo Iraqi War.

In 1917, Greece entered the war on the Allied side, and in 1918, the multi national Allied Army of the Orient, based in northern Greece, finally launched an offensive which drove Bulgaria to seek peace, recaptured Serbia and finally halted only at the border of Hungary in November 1918.

War with Jews or Christians has necessarily taken a back seat (except where, as in Egypt and Syria, Christian minorities are perceived to be allied with the regime).

At the same time the Allied powers sent several expeditionary armies to support the anti Communist forces in an attempt to force Russia to rejoin the world war.

During the remaining 18 months of the war 10 divisions of the Greek army fought alongside the Allied forces against Bulgarian and German forces in Macedonia and Bulgaria.

Multilateral economic conventions creating unions with bureaus, such as the postal and telecommunications unions, continued in force throughout the war, with belligerent, allied and neutral States as parties

And you can add to this a reorientation of America s military effort to the war in Afghanistan.

The contribution to the German war effort may not have been as significant as the planners thought.

Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of Britain and its Empire during the First World War.

__NOTOC__The Cairo Conference (codenamed Sextant) of November 22 26, 1943, held in Cairo, Egypt, outlined the Allied position against Japan during World War II and made decisions about postwar Asia.

In the post World War II era, the French made a successful effort to develop a domestic aircraft industry.