Before the war Tjaden was a locksmith.

Before the Civil War he was firmly against secession, but when the war started he nevertheless took the side of the Confederacy.

Before the war ended, the colony fell under the Provisional Government of the French Republic.

Before the buildup to the war gay servicemembers were court-martialed, imprisoned, and dishonorably discharged, but in wartime commanding officers found it difficult to convene court-martial boards of commissioned officers and the administrative blue discharge became the military's standard method for handling gay and lesbian personnel.

Before the Israeli military occupied Sinai during the June 1967 War ( Arab-Israeli war, also known as the Six-Day War ), a single Egyptian governorate administered the whole peninsula.

Before the Ethiopian civil war, the national carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, flew to numerous African, Asian, and European cities, and had sole rights on domestic air traffic.

Before the 1980s Soviet war, Afghanistan pursued a policy of neutrality and nonalignment in its foreign relations, being one of a few independent nations to stay neutral in both World War I and World War II.

Before the war, Carthage had the most powerful navy in the western Mediterranean.

Before the war, trade reform and price liberalization were the most successful part of the country's structural adjustment program under IMF sponsorship.

" Before the war, everyone felt that what was happening onstage was impossible.

All Genoshan mutants leave for Asteroid M. Before long, the country is taken over by Magneto who is ready to declare war on humanity with the Genoshan mutants by his side, following an attack on Professor X during an anti-mutant summit.

Before the war ended, the Australian Government took steps to encourage an Australian automotive industry.

Before the war broke out, Poland entered into a full military alliance with Britain and France ; the western powers lacked the will to confront Nazi Germany and their ( false ) assurances of imminent military action were only intended as pressure applied to deter Hitler.

Before the war, African political focus was diffuse.

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Before the cold war began in the late 1940s, Foot favoured a ' third way ' foreign policy for Europe ( he was joint author with Richard Crossman and Ian Mikardo of the pamphlet Keep Left in 1947 ), but in the wake of the communist seizure of power in Hungary and Czechoslovakia he and Tribune took a strongly anti-communist position, eventually embracing NATO.

Before the war Nazi German state sent undercover operatives to spy on Polish organisations and created lists of people that were to be executed and sent to concentration camps.

Before the 1997 war, about 15, 000 Europeans and other non-Africans lived in Congo, most of whom were French.

Before the 1997 civil war, the Republic of the Congo's system of government was similar to that of the French.

Before the beginning of the Syrian uprising / civil war, the obligatory military service period was being decreased over time.

Before the war Rome and Hasdrubal the Fair had made a treaty.

Before the onset of the Second World War, the United Kingdom drew on its First World War experience to prepare legislation that would allow immediate mobilization of the economy for war, should future hostilities break out.

Before the dawn of civilization, war likely consisted of small-scale raiding.

Twentieth-Century Fox made a succession of war films realistically filmed in black-and-white in the early 1950s that highlighted little-known aspects of World War II, among them The Frogmen, Go For Broke !, You're in the Navy Now, and Decision Before Dawn.

* 1264 – Before May – Second Barons ' War, an English civil war, begins.

Before World War II the term in general use was shūkyū ( 蹴球, kick-ball ), a Sino-Japanese term.

Before the Second Sino-Japanese War, he worked as a teacher, journalist and minor official.

Before universal suffrage, this distinction was important, since many people were ineligible to vote but still were considered to have the fundamental freedoms derived from the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Before settlement in 1737, Williamstown was inhabited by the Lenni-Lenape tribe of Native Americans, from whom the town derived its original name, " Squankum.

Before World War II ships were collected into divisions derived from the Royal Navy's " division " of the line of battle in which one squadron usually remained under the direct command of the Admiral of the Fleet, one squadron was commanded by a Vice Admiral, and one by a Rear Admiral, each of the three squadrons flying different coloured flags, hence the terms flagship and flag officer.

Before 1067 these are of little value, being chiefly derived from two extant sources: William of Jumieges ' Gesta Normannorum Ducum and William of Poitiers ' Gesta Guillemi.

Upper Canada College's motto is palmam qui meruit ferat, meaning " let he who merited the palm bear it ," and was derived from the poem by John Jortin titled Ad Ventos ante A. D. MDCXXVIII (" To the Winds Before 1727 ").

Before the technique of injecting air into molten iron was discovered by Kelly and by Bessemer, iron was available as cast iron, a strong but brittle metal made in a blast furnace by treating iron ore with coke derived from coal, and wrought iron, a more malleable and flexible metal made by heating iron ore in a low oxygen environment in a bloomery heated by charcoal and producing " blooms ", which were 100 to 200 pound lumps of very low carbon iron mixed with slag.

Before the introduction of coinage in Italy the two important forms of value in the economy were sheep ( pecus ), from which the Latin word for money ( pecunia ) is derived, and irregularly shaped pieces of bronze known as aes rude ( rough bronze ) which needed to be weighed for each transaction.

Before this derivation, the electron cross section had been classically derived by the British physicist and discoverer of the electron, J. J. Thomson.

Before that, their names were derived from the names of cities in the German language.

The term philately is derived from Greek wordphiloteleia '- philos referring to love of things and ' telos ' referring to a tax. Mr. Herpin is the the originator of the term ' philoteleia. Before the Greek term ' philoteleia ' was coined the hobby was called ' Timbromaine ' or ' Timbrology ',' Timbre ' in french refers to stamp.

A gobo ( or GOBO ) derived from " Go Between ", " GO BlackOut " or " Goes Before Optics ", originally used on film sets, is a physical template slotted inside, or placed in front of, a lighting source, used to control the shape of emitted light.

Before 1980, the term " protoanalysis " was narrower in scope, used specifically as the name for Ichazo's theory of types, from which the Enneagram of Personality was derived.

Before this groundbreaking work antibodies had failed to live up to their potential because they had been derived from mice.

Before that religious toleration was provided for by the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy which in turn derived from the Albertine Statute granted to his subjects by Carlo Alberto of the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1848, the Year of Revolutions.

The original Anglo-Saxon word from which Swilly is derived means “ farmland .” Before the Second World War much of the locality of what is now North Prospect and the western edge of Beacon Park was known as Swilly.