In the absence of agreement amongst the Allies concerning the status of Eritrea, British administration continued for the remainder of World War II and until 1950.

The British military mission urged the remnants of the nationalists not to oppose the communists ' advance, and the Allies evacuated Kupi to Italy.

Although educated Indians " by and large took a vicarious pleasure " in seeing the British rulers humbled, the ruling upper classes sided with the Allies.

As part of the fierce diplomatic competition in Ankara in the spring and summer of 1939 between von Papen on the one hand, and on the other the French Ambassador, René Massigli, and the British Ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, to win the allegiance of Turkey to either the Axis or the Allies, Ribbentrop suffered a major reversal in July 1939 when Massigli was able to arrange for major French arms shipments to Turkey on credit, to replace the weapons the Germans refused to deliver to the Turks.

Because of the Balkans were rich in raw materials like iron, zinc and above all oil that could help Germany survive a British blockade, it was viewed as highly important by the Allies to keep German influence in the Balkans to a minimum, hence British efforts to link British promises to support Turkey in the event of an Italian attack in exchange for Turkish promises to help defend Romania from a German attack.

Adenauer's leading role in the CDU of the British zone won him a position at the Parliamentary Council of 1948, called into existence by the Western Allies to draft a constitution for the three western zones of Germany.

In World War I, Liberia nevertheless tended to support the Allies, partly because it was French and British colonial territories that surrounded Liberia but also because Allied control of the Atlantic sea lanes made continued trade with Germany unviable.

* German leadership rejected Hartenstein's cease fire proposal, partly because Admiral Raeder did not think it wise to enter into a " deal " with the Allies, nothing was to interfere with Eisbär's surprise attack on Cape Town to strike at the supplies destined for the British and Soviets, and Hitler had directed that no word of Laconias sinking or the proposed Axis rescue be transmitted to the Allies, though subordinates ignored Hitler's orders and communicated messages to the Allies about the proposed rescue attempt.

* The British in Freetown intercepted this message but, believing it might be a ruse de guerre, refused to credit it, yet still passed it on to the U. S. The Allies had gone to much effort to establish an airfield on Ascension as a link in their only air route between the United States and the Desert War in Egypt.

When the city was divided into sectors by the occupying Allies at the end of the war, the square found itself on the boundary between the American, British and Soviet sectors.

Shortly thereafter Japan was granted free passage, and on December 21, 1941, Thailand and Japan signed a military alliance with a secret protocol wherein Tokyo agreed to help Thailand regain territories lost to the British and French ( i. e. the Shan States of Burma, Malaya, Singapore, & part of Yunnan, plus Laos & Cambodia ) Subsequently, Thailand undertook to ' assist ' Japan in its war against the Allies.

Lord Curzon, the British Foreign Secretary of that time, was the chief negotiator for the Allies, while Eleftherios Venizelos negotiated on behalf of Greece.

In 1938, the Western Allies ( United Kingdom, France, Poland and British Dominions ) had a 30 percent larger population and a 30 percent higher gross domestic product than the European Axis ( Germany and Italy ); if colonies are included, it then gives the Allies more than a 5: 1 advantage in population and nearly 2: 1 advantage in GDP.

During the final stages of World War II the future of Europe was decided between the Allies in the 1945 Yalta Conference, between the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Premier of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin.

Originally, Marshall had planned a 200-division Army with a system of unit rotation such as practiced by the British and other Allies.

The Italian conquest of British Somaliland was the only Italian victory against the Allies without the assistance of German troops in World War II.

The Allies prepared an attack that would involve 13 British and Imperial divisions and four French corps.

The ' symbolic ' war against the Western Allies, however, turned into a disaster for the citizens of Sofia as the city was heavily bombarded by the US and the British Royal Air Force in 1943 and 1944.

The specific heating effect of a beam of high-power microwaves was discovered accidentally in 1945, shortly after high-powered microwave radar transmitters were developed and widely disseminated by the Allies of World War II, using the British magnetron technology that was shared with the United States company, Raytheon, in order to secure production facilities to produce the magnetron.

The Allies in World War I ( also known as the Entente Powers ) were initially the British Empire, France, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro, and Japan, joined later by Italy, Portugal, Romania, the United States, Greece, and Brazil.

Famous victory marches around or under the Arc have included the Germans in 1871, the French in 1919, the Germans in 1940, and the French and Allies in 1944 and 1945.

Although the Allies were again repulsed, these persistent attacks on Blenheim eventually bore fruit, panicking Clérambault into making the worst French error of the day.

Therefore, unbeknown to the French who remained oblivious to the Allies ’ real strength and intentions on the opposite side of the Petite Gheete, Marlborough was throwing his full weight against Ramillies and the open plain to the south.

Allied squadrons transferred from north to south gave the Allies a 5 – 3 advantage on the plain where some 25, 000 French and Allied cavalry were heavily engaged.

As news spread of the Allies ’ triumph, the Prussians, Hessians and Hanoverian contingents, long delayed by their respective rulers, eagerly joined the pursuit of the broken French and Bavarian forces.

Further good news for the Allies arrived from northern Italy where, on 7 September, Prince Eugene had routed a French army before the Piedmontese capital, Turin, driving the Franco-Spanish forces from northern Italy.

Félix Éboué in a contemporary World War II cartoonDuring World War II, Chad was the first French colony to rejoin the Allies ( August 26, 1940 ), after the defeat of France by Germany.

On 26 February 1815, Napoleon abandoned Elba for France, reviving the French Empire for a Hundred Days ; the Allies declared an end to Napoleon's sovereignty over Elba on 25 March 1815, and on 31 March 1815 Elba was ceded to the restored Grand Duchy of Tuscany by the Congress of Vienna.

Social, political, and economic upheaval in the wake of the conflict led to the Second World War, in which the Allies were defeated in the Battle of France and the French government surrendered and was replaced with an authoritarian regime.

The Allies, including the government in exile's Free French Forces and later a liberated French nation, eventually emerged victorious over the Axis Powers.

On 6 June 1944 the Allies landed in Normandy ; on 15 August Allied forces landing in Provence included 260, 000 men of the French First Army.

Having kept bonds with the English speakers ( he spent part of his childhood in the United States and usually spoke English ) and with French soldiers in North Africa ( under Admiral Lemonnier ), Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( whose villa " Baobab " at Sanary ( Var ) was opposite Admiral Darlan's villa " Reine "), helped the French Navy to join again with the Allies ; he assembled a commando operation against the Italian espionage services in France, and received several military decorations for his deeds.

Adenauer was able to overcome grave French objections and created the non-nuclear " Bundeswehr " based on democratic principles and practices that met the Allies ' criteria.

* 1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.

After the Allies takeover, the army came under the control of the Free French and was designated the Levantine Forces ( Troupes du Levant ).

Both the French and the Allies sent envoys to Charles's camp, and the French hoped to encourage him to turn his troops against the Emperor Joseph I, who Charles felt had slighted him by his support for Augustus.

The Allies, however, imposed more humiliating conditions ; they demanded that Louis use the French army to dethrone his own grandson.

The arrival of the transferring squadrons now began to tip the balance in favour of the Allies.

Major air combat during the war in the Pacific began with the entry of the Western Allies following Japan's attack against Pearl Harbor.

By mid-1942, the Allies began to regroup and while some Allied aircraft such as the Brewster Buffalo and the P-39 were hopelessly outclassed by fighters like Japan's Zero, others such as the Army's P-40 and the Navy's Wildcat possessed attributes such as superior firepower, ruggedness and dive speed, and the Allies soon developed tactics ( such as the Thach weave ) to take advantage of these strengths.

By 1943, the Allies began to gain the upper hand in the Pacific Campaign's air campaigns.

When World War I began in 1914, Roosevelt strongly supported the Allies and demanded a harsher policy against Germany, especially regarding submarine warfare.

Occupation of the ceded territories by Germany required large amounts of manpower and trucks, yet yielded little in the way of foodstuffs or other war material, even as the Germans were transferring hundreds of thousands of veteran troops to the Western Front as rapidly as they could, where they began a series of spring offensives that badly shocked the Allies.

Between Brest-Litovsk and the point when the German military situation in the west became dire, some officials in the German government and high command began to favour offering more lenient terms to the Allies in exchange for their recognition of German gains in the east.

After the defeats at Lützen ( 2 May 1813 ) and Bautzen ( 21 May 1813 ), it was the Swedish Crown Prince who put fresh fighting spirit into the Allies ; and at the conference of Trachenberg he drew up the general plan for the campaign which began after the expiration of the Truce of Plaswitz.

During World War II, Palermo was untouched until the Allies began to advance up Italy after the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.

On 25 July 1943, King Victor Emmanuel III dismissed Mussolini, placed him under arrest, and began secret negotiations with the Allies.

After suffering devastating losses at Stalingrad, Romanian officials began secretly negotiating peace conditions with the Allies.

To that end, as the Allies began their post-war denazification efforts, the Psychological Warfare Division ( PWD ) of SHAEF ( Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ) undertook a psychological propaganda campaign for the purpose of developing a German sense of collective responsibility.

The city, while nominated to be abandoned to the Japanese in the spring by Australian factions was, by September, home to an important Allied complex of bases and thousands of troops were eventually stationed in the area or more often, staged through it, as it was the last allied bastion on the island and the last line of defense against the Japanese before Australia and conversely, a key staging and jumping off point as the Allies got their feet underneath themselves under MacArthur, and began conducting offensive warfare themselves, pushing back the Japanese advances.

However, as Mussolini and the axis powers failed in the Second World War in 1943, several members of the Italian court began putting out feelers to the Allies, who in turn let it be known that Mussolini had to go.

The battle thus began before the Allies could complete their deployment.

Nevertheless, despite his Allies ' initial lassitude the campaign in the Low Countries ( the war's principal theatre ) began well for Marlborough.

Endeavouring to restore order, Cumberland personally exhorted and inspired his men, halting their retreat, rallying them with the cry: Newly encouraged, the Allies once again began to move forward.

After Germany's defeat at the Marne, there began a series of flanking maneuvres by both the Germans, and the British and French Allies heading northwards in one last attempt to end the war quickly.

When the war began turning toward the Allies favour, the Commission was able to begin restoring its 1914-1918 cemeteries and memorials to their pre-war standard.

Following this appeal, the Allies also beached their ships, and began to prepare to assault the camp.

Herodotus reports that as the Allies approached the Persian camp, rumour spread amongst them of an Allied victory at Plataea ; Diodorus also claims that Leotychides informed the Allies of victory at Plataea before the battle began.

The Allies occupied the hills near the town and began firing on the retreating Germans.