After the outbreak of World War II in 1939, American communists argued that the United States should not get involved in the war on the side of the United Kingdom, since the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of nonaggression meant that the Soviet Union was at peace with Germany.

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 having taken over power of the country, the Albanian communists launched a tremendous terror campaign, shooting intellectuals and arresting thousands of innocent people.

After the Soviet-Yugoslav split, Albania and Bulgaria were the only countries the Soviet Union could use to funnel war material to the communists fighting in Greece.

After the defeat of her husband's government in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, Madame Chiang followed her husband to Taiwan, while her sister Soong Ching-ling stayed on the mainland, siding with the communists.

After the February 26, 1990 elections, the Sandinistas lost and peacefully passed power to the National Opposition Union ( UNO ), an alliance of 14 opposition parties ranging from the conservative business organization COSEP to Nicaraguan communists.

After the surprising opening of 1970 toward conservatives, and the still discussed proposal of the Historic Compromise, he published a correspondence with Monsignor Luigi Bettazzi, the Bishop of Ivrea ; it was an astonishing event, since Pope Pius XII had excommunicated the Communists soon after World War II, and the possibility of any relationship between communists and Catholics seemed very unlikely.

After the second attempt, the military in power exterminated in reprisals several thousand communists and agrarians including representatives of the intelligentsia. Boris III of Bulgaria and Prime-minister Kimon Georgiev during the opening session of the IV International Congress of Byzantine Studies ( Sofia, 09.

After the CPB was banned in the wake of the August 1991 coup d ' état, Belarusian communists regrouped and renamed themselves the Party of Communists of Belarus ( PCB ), which became the umbrella organization for Belarus's communist parties and pro-Russian groups.

After the signing of the Paris Peace Accords — which Thiệu opposed — and the American withdrawal, South Vietnam resisted the communists for another two years until the communists ’ final final push for victory, which saw the South openly invaded by the entire North Vietnamese Army.

After the invasion of the Soviet Union, guerrilla warfare was undertaken by communists, who attacked German forces at the hearts of French cities.

After the Red Army set up police organs to persecute class enemies, the Soviets assumed that the impoverished Hungarian populace would support communists in coming elections.

After the seizure of power by the communists on December 30, 1947, " Deşteaptă-te române " and other patriotic songs closely associated with the previous regime were outlawed.

After the ravages of the war the nationalists and communists fought in the Greek Civil War ( 1945 – 1947 ), after which the Greek government used the island to exile about 13, 000 communists.

After the Pathet Lao communists gained control of Laos in 1975, Phoumi became involved in anti-communist resistance ( Kou Xat in Lao ) activities against the Lao government.

After leaving the United States, Nosaka worked in China from 1940 – 1945, supporting the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) by indoctrinating captured Japanese soldiers to support and fight for the Chinese communists against the Imperial Japanese Army, and coordinating a spy network that operated throughout Japanese-occupied China.

After the surrender of Japan in 1945, Nosaka returned to Japan with hundreds of other Japanese communists, where he led the Japanese Communist Party during the occupation of Japan.

After reports surfaced that the Japanese were punishing Japanese prisoners after they returned, the Red Army's policy gradually changed to one of retraining POWs, and the communists began to implement this policy after Nosaka arrived in Yan ' an.

After his return to Japan, Nosaka worked to organize Japanese communists.

After the war the National Coalition Party sought to portray itself as defender of democracy against the resurgent Finnish communists.

After the royalist party FUNCINPEC defeated the former communists ( Cambodian People's Party ) in the 1993 elections, the royalist anthem was restored.

After successfully besieging the adjacent regions of Ruijin, the capital of the Jiangxi Soviet, and occupying most of Jiangxi Soviet itself, Chiang was confident that he would finish off the communists in a final decisive strike.

After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

After luncheon we took advantage of the siesta period to try to get in touch with a few people to whom our dear friend Deppy had written.

After the spate of female vocalists we have been having, all of whom took Sarah as a point of departure and then tried to see what they could do that might make her seem old hat, it seemed that all that has happened is to make the real thing seem better than ever.

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

After a Republican victory, but before the new administration took office on March 4, 1861, seven cotton states declared their secession and joined to form the Confederate States of America.

After the war, Australia took firm control of both the Ashes and world cricket.

After winning the First Test by an innings after being controversially sent in by Hutton, Australia lost its way and England took a hat-trick of victories to win the series 3 – 1.

After Australia took a 1 – 0 lead in the first two Tests, Botham was forced to resign or was sacked ( depending on the source ).

After the Communists took control in the 1940s Polish scholars were safer working on the Middle Ages and the early modern era rather than contemporary history.

After finishing his education, Albuquerque first served in North Africa and in the Mediterranean where he took part in numerous successful campaigns against the Arabs and the Ottomans.

After Ealdred's return to England he took charge of the sees of Hereford and Ramsbury.

After winning over the Sanhaja Berber tribe, they quickly took control of the entire desert trade route, seizing Sijilmasa at the northern end in 1054, and Aoudaghost at the southern end in 1055.

After his brother's death on 30 September / November 1204, Andrew took over the government of the kingdom as his nephew's tutor and he also seized the money his brother had deposited on behalf of the child Ladislaus.

After the death of Julian, he took part in the retreat of Jovian as far as Antioch.

After defeat in 310 BC he took the desperate resolve of breaking through the blockade and attacking the enemy in Africa.

After their arrival, the duo took photographs of the wide and deep crater.

After leaving school at 17, Ayckbourn's career took several temporary jobs in various places before starting a temporary job at the Scarborough Library Theatre, where he was introduced to the artistic director, Stephen Joseph.

After taking the first two games at home against the Cubs, in the National League Division Series, they took the series to Wrigley Field, where they completed their sweep, earning their first berth in the National League Championship Series since 2001.

After the first battle between two ironclads took place in 1862 during the American Civil War, it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmoured line-of-battle ship as the most powerful warship afloat.

After visiting Venice and Urbino in 1707, Scarlatti took up his duties in Naples again in 1708, and remained there until 1717.

After his death, Balthasar van der Ast took over his workshop and pupils.

After World War I, the Anthroposophical movement took on new directions.

After the death of his master the school of Syria was dispersed, and Aedesius seems to have modified his doctrines out of fear of Constantine, and took refuge in divination.

After some negotiations, an interview took place between him and Lepel Griffin, the diplomatic representative at Kabul of the Indian government.

After filming Darkman, they took the script out and worked on it in more detail.