Those Greeks who chose to resist ( the ' Allies ') were defeated in the twin simultaneous battles of Thermopylae on land and Artemisium at sea.

The Allies chose an area at the Var coast east of Toulon as the landing site.

After being liberated by the Allies at the end of the war, he chose not to return to Yugoslavia ( which had a Communist government by that time ).

For example, the French chose to build " super-destroyers " which were deemed during the Second World War by the Allies as the equivalent of light cruisers.

When the World War I broke out in 1914, the South African government chose to join the war on the side of the Allies.

Unlike the Allies, who chose to pursue both the enrichment of uranium and production of plutonium in reactors, German scientists elected to focus on plutonium production, as the industrial complex required to make weapons this way was less expensive.

Following the surrender of Japan, while his fellow POWs were repatriated, van der Post chose to remain in Java, and on 15 September 1945, he joined Admiral William Patterson on HMS Cumberland for the official surrender of the Japanese in Java to British forces representing the Allies.

Most chose to work for Britain and delivered vital information to the Allies, including details about troop movements and the keys to cracking German codes.

Allies of President Pervez Musharraf withdrew their candidate for Pakistan's prime minister, Farooq Sattar, and the coalition chose Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, who was sworn in March 25, 2008 by President Pervez Musharraf.

Of the two Low Countries, Luxembourg chose to capitulate, and was viewed as a collaborationist State by the Entente Powers: Luxembourg never became part of the Allies, and only narrowly avoided Belgian efforts of annexation, at the conclusion of hostilities in 1919.

Significantly, Solomon Islanders experience as labourers with the Allies led some to a new appreciation of the importance of economic organisation and trade as the basis for material advancement.

The Japanese had reached the high-water mark of their conquests in the Pacific, and Guadalcanal marked the transition by the Allies from defensive operations to the strategic offensive in that theatre and the beginning of offensive operations, including the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and Central Pacific campaigns, that resulted in Japan's eventual surrender and the end of World War II.

Axis & Allies: Battle of the Bulge ( 2006 ) focused on the Battle of the Bulge in Europe while Axis & Allies: Guadalcanal ( 2007 ) focused on the Solomon Islands Campaign in the Pacific.

Building on their success in securing Guadalcanal, the Allies continued their campaign in the Solomon Islands to its successful conclusion.

Although the U. S. now had only one operational carrier ( Hornet ) in the South Pacific, the Allies still maintained air superiority over the southern Solomon Islands because of their aircraft based at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.

The Allies were in the process of launching their next offensive in the Solomon Islands, having just landed troops on the island of Rendova as a preliminary step to seizing the major Japanese airstrip at " Munda " on New Georgia Island.

Allies in the Comintern had already began to promote the trusted Browder as the best figure to head the American Communist Party, with Solomon Lozovsky taking up his banner in Moscow while Mikhailov-Williams lent his support from America.

Seizing the strategic initiative, the United States and its Allies landed on Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands in August 1942, beginning the Solomon Islands Campaign.

In the campaigns of 1943 and the first half of 1944, the Allies had captured the Solomon Islands, the Gilbert Islands, the Marshall Islands and the Papuan peninsula of New Guinea.

As it became clear at the end of 1942 that they could not hold Guadalcanal, the Japanese commanders guessed that the Allies would move towards the Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain, and that the central Solomon Islands were logical steps on the way.

The name Battle of Vella Lavella may refer to three related battles between the Allies and Japan in the Solomon Islands in 1943, during the Pacific campaign of World War II.

Lying east of the Marshall islands, Makin would make an excellent seaplane base, extending Japanese air patrols closer to Howland Island, Baker Island, Tuvalu and Phoenix and Ellice Islands, all held by the Allies and protecting the eastern flank of the Japanese perimeter from an Allied attack.

Many small scale operations were conducted by the Allies on the Axis-held coast of Europe, including raids on the Lofoten Islands, St Nazaire and Bruneval.

Lying east of the Marshall islands, Makin would make an excellent seaplane base, extending Japanese air patrols closer to Howland Island, Baker Island, Tuvalu and Phoenix and Ellice Islands, all held by the Allies and protecting the eastern flank of the Japanese perimeter from an Allied attack.

AFRS stations broadcast from the islands of New Guinea, Java, and Borneo in the Dutch East Indies as the Allies moved into the Gilbert Islands and Bismarck Archipelago to the east.

The brief campaign in the Italian-held Dodecanese Islands resulted as both Germany and the Allies scrambled to occupy them after the surrender of Italy in early September 1943.

At the same time, Japanese air and naval assets would conduct conspicuous maneuvers and minor attacks around New Guinea and the Marshall Islands along with deceptive radio traffic to try to confuse the Allies as to the Japanese intentions.

Germany 1949: West Germany ( blue ) comprised the Western Allies ' zones, excluding the Saar ( protectorate ) | Saarland ( purple ); the Soviet zone, East Germany ( red ) surrounded West Berlin ( yellow )

The main point of the proposal was that Germany would only surrender to the Western Allies ( Great Britain and the United States ), but would be allowed to continue resisting the Soviet Union.

France and Spain then entered the war against Great Britain as Allies of the US, ending its naval advantage and escalating the conflict into a world war.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in 1942 wrote to President Roosevelt: " I venture to think that the Allied declaration that the Allies are fighting to make the world safe for the freedom of the individual and for democracy sounds hollow so long as India and for that matter Africa are exploited by Great Britain ..." Roosevelt repeatedly brought the need for Indian independence to Churchill's attention, but was repeatedly rebuffed.

As the European situation for the Allies deteriorated, Husseini advised Iraq to adhere to the letter to their treaty with Great Britain, and avoid being drawn into the war in order to conserve her energies for the liberation of Arab countries.

After the Greeks retreated to form a new front, he appealed to the Allies, and especially Great Britain, for assistance and mediation.

" Forgotten Allies: The Loyal Shawnees and the War of 1812 " in David Curtis Skaggs and Larry L. Nelson, eds., The Sixty Years ' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814, pp. 337 – 51.

Among the most important of these was the emergence of the U. S. as a Great Power on the international scene, and in 1917 TNR urged America's entry into World War I on the side of the Allies.

Because of the treaty that Japan had signed with Great Britain in 1902, Japan was one of the Allies during the war.

In a radio broadcast to the Romanian nation and army on the night of 23 August King Michael issued a cease-fire, proclaimed Romania's loyalty to the Allies, announced the acceptance of an armistice ( to be signed on September 12 ) offered by Great Britain, the United States, and the USSR, and declared war on Germany.

Contemporaneously, NRL appeals to Allies asking for a military mission, suggesting the possibility of the Great Polish Army fighting against Bolsheviks.

* Letter to Earl Grey on the Policy of Great Britain and the Allies towards Norway ( 1814 ).

During World War II, before Russia and the U. S. joined forces with the Allies, Great Britain was suffering severe casualties and facing German bombing attacks at home.

At the same time a last attempt was made by the Allies to convoke a Near East conference ( this time to be held in Venice, in September ) of representatives of the Great Powers and the two belligerents to discuss terms of peace.

While the Allies would not have required the Vatican to sell its assets in Fondiaria if they had been acquired before the war, had they learned of this mid-war transaction, they would have blocked all the banking accounts of the Holy See in New York as well as its business interests in the United States and Great Britain.

In 2010, Time magazine reported that Germany made " final reparations-related payment for the Great War on Oct. 3, nearly 92 years after the country's defeat by the Allies.

" Forgotten Allies: The Loyal Shawnees and the War of 1812 " in David Curtis Skaggs and Larry L. Nelson, eds., The Sixty Years ' War for the Great Lakes, 1754 – 1814, pp. 337 – 51.

" Forgotten Allies: The Loyal Shawnees and the War of 1812 " in David Curtis Skaggs and Larry L. Nelson, eds., The Sixty Years ' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814, pp. 337 – 51.

These books The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I and The Blitzkrieg Myth: How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II.

In The Myth of the Great War, Mosier argues that Germany was winning World War I, and only the arrival of the United States spared the Allies from military defeat and a negotiated peace with the Germans.

In 1740, the War of the Austrian Succession began, which pitted Great Britain and her Allies once more against France.

The Allies were alarmed when an analyst found that part of the complex was aligned within half a degree of the Great Circle bearing on New York, and its equipment was large enough to accommodate a rocket twice the size of the V-2: the " America Rocket ", the proposed A10 intercontinental ballistic missile.

* " Uncle Sam's Boys Smash the Germans: or, Helping the Allies Wind Up the Great World War "

Axis & Allies: Europe is set in the Spring of 1941 and covers the conflicts between Germany and the Soviet Union, Great Britain ( U. K .), and the United States ( U. S .) across Europe, the Atlantic, North Africa, and the Middle East.

World Map showing the participants in Great War II. The Allies of World War I | Entente are depicted in brown, the CSA in red, the Central Powers in blue, the Japanese Empire in yellow, the Chinese Empire in green and neutral countries in grey.