With support Supporting in logistics and air power from the Western Allies , and Soviet ground troops in the Belgrade Offensive , the Partisans eventually gained Getting control Control of the entire country and of the border regions of Trieste and Carinthia .

The Turkish War of Independence ( `` War of Liberation '' , also known figuratively as `` İstiklâl Harbi '' `` Independence War '' or `` Millî Mücadele '' `` National Campaign '' ; 19 May 1919 – 24 July 1923 ) was fought Hostile_encounter between the Turkish National Movement and the proxies of the Allies – namely Greece on the Western Front , Armenia on the Eastern , France on the Southern , the royalists and the separatists in various cities , and with them , the United Kingdom and Italy in Constantinople ( now Istanbul ) – after parts of the Ottoman Empire were occupied and partitioned following the Ottomans ' defeat Conquering in World War I .

On 30 October 1918 , the Armistice of Mudros was signed Sign_agreement between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies of World War I , bringing hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I to a close .

The treaty granted the Allies the right to occupy Control forts controlling Control the Straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus ; and the right to occupy Control `` in case of disorder '' any territory in case of a threat to security .

A wave of seizures took place Process_start in the following months by the Allies .

The Allies were able to rapidly transport Bringing five divisions across the Rhine into the Ruhr , Germany 's industrial heartland .

The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict Hostile_encounter between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union ( USSR ) , Poland and other Allies , which encompassed Surrounding Central Europe , Eastern Europe , Northeast Europe ( Baltics ) , and Southeast Europe ( Balkans ) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 .

The Western Allied invasion of Germany was coordinated Arranging by the Western Allies during the final months of hostilities in the European theatre of World War II .

The Allied invasion of Germany started Process_start with the Western Allies crossing the Rhine River on 22 March 1945 before fanning out and overrunning all of western Germany from the Baltic in the north to the Alpine passes in the south , where they linked up with troops of the U.S. Fifth Army in Italy .

On the Western Front the Allies had been fighting Hostile_encounter in Germany with campaigns against the Siegfried Line since the Battle of Aachen and the Battle of Hurtgen Forest in late 1944 and by January 1945 had pushed the Germans back to their starting points during the Battle of the Bulge .

On 7 March , the Allies seized Hold the last remaining intact bridge across the Rhine at Remagen , and had established Building a large bridgehead on the river 's east bank .

As such , with the Western Allies making final preparations for their powerful offensive into the German heartland , victory was imminent .

The campaign formed Coming_to_be the initial part of an offensive that the Allies launched Motion in the Pacific in late 1943 and resulted in Causation the Japanese being pushed Motion north from Lae to Sio on the northern coast of New Guinea over the course of a four-month period .

Following the landing Self_motion at Scarlet Beach , the Allies set about Placing moving Motion south to secure Finschhafen , which saw fighting Hostile_encounter around Jivevaneng also .

The battle Hostile_encounter marked Recording the first time since the start of the war that a major Japanese advance had been checked Preventing_or_letting by the Allies .

Two months later , the Allies took advantage of Japan 's resulting strategic vulnerability in the South Pacific and launched Military_operation the Guadalcanal Campaign ; this , along with the New Guinea Campaign , eventually broke Destroying Japanese defenses Defending in the South Pacific and was a significant contributing Causation factor to Japan 's ultimate surrender Surrendering in World War II .

Before their American leg of the tour , a competition Competition was held Hold by Creative Allies for people to design a poster for the leg .

The Allies captured Conquering 897 men , 653 Germans and Italians are thought to have escaped Escaping to Italy and an unknown number drowned .

During the opening Openness stages of the offensive Attack , the Allies faced Confronting_problem a severe shortage Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale of food and ammunition .

For the Allies , there were a number of valuable but costly lessons in the conduct Action of jungle warfare Hostile_encounter .

The main Polish objectives were to drive Self_motion the Germans out of Warsaw while helping Assistance the Allies defeat Conquering Germany .

In the final year of the war , the Allies prepared GetReady for a very costly invasion of the Japanese mainland .

The war Hostile_encounter in Europe had concluded Coming_to_believe when Germany signed Sign_agreement its instrument of surrender on May 8 , 1945 , and the Allies turned Change their full attention to the Pacific theater .

The Allies issued Statement orders for atomic bombs to be used Using on four Japanese cities on July 25 .

Japan surrendered Surrendering to the Allies on August 15 , six days after the Soviet Union 's declaration Expressing_publicly of war and the bombing Attack of Nagasaki .

The Pacific War saw Self_motion the Allies pitted Hostile_encounter against Japan , the latter aided Assistance by Thailand and to a lesser extent by the Axis allied Germany and Italy .

The war culminated Process_end in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , and other large aerial bomb attacks Attack by the Allies , accompanied GetReady by the Soviet Union 's declaration Expressing_publicly of war and invasion Attack of Manchuria and other territories on 9 August 1945 , resulting in Causation the Japanese announcement Expressing_publicly of intent to surrender Surrendering on 15 August 1945 .

After the war , Japan lost Earnings_and_losses all rights and titles to its former possessions in Asia and the Pacific , and its sovereignty was limited Limiting to the four main home islands and other minor islands as determined Deciding by the Allies .

The United States Government officially granted Giving payments and benefits to various ethnicites who have fought Hostile_encounter with the Allies by the war 's end .

The offensive Attack was intended to stop Preventing_or_letting Allied use Using of the Belgian port of Antwerp and to split Change the Allied lines , allowing Preventing_or_letting the Germans to encircle Besieging and destroy Destroying four Allied armies and force Causation the Western Allies to negotiate Communication a peace treaty in the Axis powers ' favor .

The Germans had attacked Attack a weakly defended Defending section of the Allied line , taking Conquering advantage of heavily overcast weather conditions that grounded Placing the Allies ' overwhelmingly superior air forces .

This , and terrain that favored Causation the defenders , threw Causation the German advance behind schedule and allowed Preventing_or_letting the Allies to reinforce Cause_change_of_strength the thinly placed Placing troops .

To resist Defending the offensive , the Germans had committed Commitment their most powerful armoured reserves , which deprived Destroying them of the fighting power for a counter-offensive and forfeited Earnings_and_losses the initiative to the Allies .

The capture Arrest of Chunuk Bair was the only success for the Allies of the campaign Military_operation but it was fleeting as the position proved untenable .

To counter Attack the German submarines , the Allies moved Motion shipping into convoys guarded Defending by destroyers , blockades Besieging such as the Dover Barrage and minefields were laid , and aircraft patrols Patrolling monitored Scrutiny the U-boat bases .

The Allies damaged Damaging at least two of the German ships for the loss Earnings_and_losses of seven Beaufighters shot down Use_firearm by flak guns .

The last troops of the Allies departed Departing from the city on 4 October 1923 , and the first troops of the Ankara government , commanded Control by Şükrü Naili Pasha ( 3rd Corps ) , entered Arriving the city with a ceremony on 6 October 1923 , which has been marked Recording as the `` Liberation Day '' of Istanbul ( Turkish : `` İstanbul'un Kurtuluşu '' ) and is commemorated Social_event every year on its anniversary .

The Noemvriana ( , `` November Events '' ) of , or the Greek Vespers , was a political dispute Quarreling which led to Causation an armed confrontation Hostile_encounter in Athens between the royalist government of Greece and the forces of the Allies over the issue Creating of Greece 's neutrality during World War I .

The Allies feared Change_sentiment the possibility of a secret pact between the Greek royalist government and the Central Powers .

The king wanted Greece to maintain her neutrality , a position that would favor the Central Powers plans in the Balkans while the Allies wanted demobilization of the Greek army and the surrender Surrendering of war materiel equivalent to what was lost Earnings_and_losses at Fort Rupel as a guarantee of Greece 's neutrality .

By the end Process_end of the summer of 1916 , the failure of negotiations , along with the Bulgarian army 's advance in eastern Macedonia and the Greek government 's orders for the Greek army not to offer resistance , led to Causation a military coup by Venizelist military officers in Thessaloniki with the support Supporting of the Allies .

The former Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos , who from the very beginning Process_start supported the Allies , established Building a provisional government in northern Greece .

In an attempt to enforce their demands , the Allies landed Arriving a small contingent in Athens on .

Following the Noemvriana , the Allies , determined Deciding to remove Constantine I , established Building a naval blockade Besieging to isolate areas which supported Supporting the king .

It joined Becoming_a_member World War I on the side of the Allies .

By 1918 , the mobilized Greek army provided Supply the numerical superiority the Allies needed on the Macedonian front .

Having advanced Self_motion , the Allies were halted Process_end north of Falaise and forced to prepare GetReady a fresh attack Attack .

On that day , 242 Japanese aircraft , in two separate raids Attack , attacked Attack the town , ships in Darwin 's harbour and the town 's two airfields in an attempt to prevent Preventing_or_letting the Allies from using Using them as bases to contest Military_operation the invasion Attack of Timor and Java during World War Military_operation II .

The campaign was initiated Process_start by the Allies in late 1943 as part of a major offensive which aimed Aiming to neutralise Destroying the important Japanese base at Rabaul , the capital of New Britain , and was conducted Action in two phases between December 1943 and the end of the war Hostile_encounter in August 1945 .

Planned Arranging at short notice , the mission followed an offer by the Italian government to open Openness the ports of Taranto and Brindisi on the heel of Italy to the Allies .