After judging the communists as an immediate threat to the country, the Balli Kombëtar sided with the Germans, fatally damaging its image among those fighting the Fascists.

After peace talks between the Germans and the Finnish Reds were broken off on 11 April, the true battle for the capital of Finland began.

After the Huns in the 4th century invaded the territories of the Gothic King Ermanaric, which at its peak stretched between the Danube and the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea, thousands of Goths fled into the Balkans, defeating the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople and sacking Rome in 410, while thousands of Germans were crossing the Rhine.

After Andreas Brehme sent England 1 – 0 down, he scored an equaliser after receiving a pass from Paul Parker and escaping from two German defenders, but the West Germans triumphed in the penalty shoot-out and went on to win the trophy.

After Napoleon's fiasco in Russia in 1812, including the deaths of many Germans in his invasion army, Prussia joined with Russia.

After surrender in North Africa and losing the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942 – 43, the Germans were on the defensive.

After limited initial gains by the Germans, the Americans halted the offensive.

After the surrender of the Italian Army in September 1943, Albania was occupied by the Germans and soon exploded into a ferocious guerilla war.

After World War II, the devastated city along with all of Pomerania east of the Oder-Neisse line became Polish, and the remaining Germans either fled or were expelled.

After settling along the Baltic coast, through contact with other Germans they adopted the cult of the Aesir gods, a shift that represented a cultural change from an agricultural society into a warrior society.

After World War II, as General Designer of small arms for the Soviet Army, his design subordinates included the Germans Hugo Schmeisser, designer of the StG-44, and Werner Grüner ( of MG 42 fame ) who was a pioneer in sheet metal embossing technology in the 1950s.

* Poland: After World War II, with the extermination of the Jews by the invading German Nazis during the Holocaust, the Expulsion of Germans after World War II and the loss of eastern territories ( Kresy ), 96. 7 % of the people of Poland claim Polish nationality, and 97. 8 % declare that they speak Polish at home ( Census 2002 ).

After six months of combat against the Germans, the stavka abolished the Rifle Corps intermediate level between the Army and Division level because, while useful in theory, in the state of the Red Army in 1941, they proved ineffective in practice.

After the treaty, it looked like much of that material would fall into the hands of the Germans.

After a rough start Britain under David Lloyd George successfully mobilised its manpower, womanpower, industry, finances, Empire and diplomacy, in league with the French and Americans, to defeat the Germans and Turks.

After further investigations, it has been confirmed that the Lusitania was in fact carrying ammunition for the allies to use against the Germans.

After Stephens, a notorious and brilliant interrogator, had picked apart their life history the agents were either spirited away ( to be imprisoned or executed ) or, if judged acceptable, offered the chance to turn double on the Germans.

After that victory, Wends were under increasing pressure from Germans, Danes and Poles.

After having put down a rebellion by his son, Liudolf, Duke of Swabia and son-in-law, Conrad, Duke of Lorraine, Otto I the Great, King of the Germans, set out to Saxony, his duchy.

After the Germans stormed and plundered the Hungarian camp, the raiders set out for Hungary.

After briefly considering this, Bradley vetoed this proposal, as he was less concerned about killing large numbers of Germans than he was in arranging for the relief of Bastogne before it was overrun.

After the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact divided Poland during World War II, Germans deported Poles and Jews from Polish territories annexed by Nazi Germany, while the Soviet Union deported Poles from areas of Eastern Poland, Kresy to Siberia and Kazakhstan.

After the Germans annexed Damaraland and Namaqualand ( modern Namibia ) in 1884, the British annexed Bechuanaland in 1885.

After Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, and the Wehrmacht reached Estonia in July 1941, most Estonians greeted the Germans with relatively open arms and hoped to restore independence.

After this, the Bulgarian army ( as part of the Red Army's Third Ukrainian Front ) fought the Germans in Yugoslavia and Hungary, sustaining numerous casualties.

After a White House huddle between the President and top lieutenants, the Defense Department reacted sharply to a cry from the pro-Western government of Laos that several battalions of Communist troops had invaded Laos from North Viet Nam.

After several unsuccessful battles with the Boii and other Celtic tribes, they appeared ca 113 BC in Noricum, where they invaded the lands of one of Rome's allies, the Taurisci.

After Japan invaded China in 1937, Chiang agreed to a temporary truce with the CPC.

After India was invaded by the Mongol Khans and Turkic Muslims, the rulers of their major states on the subcontinent were titled Sultān, In this manner, the only empress-regnant ever to have actually sat on the throne of Delhi was Razia Sultan.

After some initial drawbacks, he defeated the Neapolitan commander Niccolò Piccinino, who had invaded his possessions in Romagna and Marche, through the help of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta ( who had married his daughter Polissena ) and the Venetians, and could return to Milan.

After their able leader Totila was killed at the Battle of Taginae, effective Ostrogothic resistance ended, and the remaining Goths were assimilated by the Lombards, another Germanic tribe, who invaded Italy and founded a Kingdom in the northern parts of the country in 567 AD.

After the German invasion of Poland that marked the start of WWII in Europe, the Soviet Union invaded and annexed eastern parts of the Second Polish Republic.

In the spring of 1945 Germany itself was invaded from the east by the Soviet Union and from the west by the other Allies respectively ; After Red Army conquered the Reichstag in Berlin, Hitler committed suicide and Germany surrendered in early May ending the war in Europe.

After annexing the Sudetenland border country of Czechoslovakia ( October 1938 ), and taking over the rest of the Czech lands as a protectorate ( March 1939 ), the German Reich and the Soviet Union invaded Poland on first September 1939 predominantly as part of the Wehrmacht operation codenamed Fall Weiss.

After the decline of the Roman Empire, Germanic tribes invaded the former empire.

After c. 1180 BC, the empire was invaded by the Sea peoples and disintegrated into several independent " Neo-Hittite " city-states, some surviving until the 8th century BC.

After this, the Huns invaded the Sassanid Empire.

After Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia ( 15 March 1939 ) without notifying Mussolini in advance, the Italian dictator decided to proceed with his own annexation of Albania.

After the Jewish garrison of Yodfat fell under siege, the Romans invaded, killing thousands ; the survivors committed suicide.

After the death of both Fulk and Emperor John in separate hunting accidents in 1143, Zengi invaded and conquered Edessa in 1144.

After continued PLO-Israeli exchanges, Israel invaded Lebanon on June 6 in Operation Peace for Galilee.

After Germany invaded the Low Countries during 1940, Pius XII sent expressions of sympathy to the Queen of the Netherlands, the King of Belgium, and the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the region was repeatedly invaded by the Burgundians, the Goths ( 5th century ), Byzantines, Lombards ( 6th century ), Franks ( 773 ).

After Germany invaded Poland and occupied the town, his family was placed in a labor camp where his father, a civil engineer familiar with much of the local infrastructure, was a valued prisoner.

After the Klingon Empire persuaded the Romulans to enter the General War, the Romulans invaded the already besieged Federation on what they called " The Day of the Eagle ".

After having had several years of dramatic military success, Germany was defeated in 1945, having been repelled and invaded by the Soviet Union from the east and invaded from the west by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Free France.

** After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu, who flees his palace in a helicopter to escape inevitable execution after the palace was invaded by rioters.

After Iraq invaded Kuwait on 2 August 1990, Powell claimed that since Britain was not an ally of Kuwait in the " formal sense " and because the balance of power in the Middle East had ceased to be a British concern after the end of the British Empire, Britain should not go to war.