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In the early 1900s, Norway's merchant fleet was one of the largest in the world, and the country required vast supplies of oil, coal and steel to build and operate it. When war broke out in 1914, Norway was exporting great amounts of fish to Germans and British alike, much to the dismay of the British government.
During the First World War, the 1st Division was activated to ensure Norwegian neutrality. Training was intensified with several large-scale exercises and units performed guard duty at important sites such as arsenals and industrial facilities. [1]
Norway was neutral in World War I and tried to remain neutral in World War II.Neutrality was maintained until the German invasion began on 9 April 1940. Norwegian coastal artillery sufficiently delayed the German capture of Oslo to permit Norway's King Haakon VII, the royal family and the government to flee the capital and eventually reach Tromsø at the top of Norway on 2 May.
It organized and supervised the resistance within Norway. One long-term impact was the abandonment of a traditional Scandinavian policy of neutrality; Norway became a founding member of NATO in 1949. [109] Norway at the start of the war had the world's fourth largest merchant fleet, at 4.8 million tons, including a fifth of the world's oil tankers.
Following the end of the Franco-Thai War, Thailand officially adopted a neutral position during World War II. Neutrality lasted until the Japanese invasion of Thailand on 8 December 1941, which led to an armistice and military alliance treaty with the Japanese Empire in mid-December 1941.
Sweden's last war ended in 1814, and when the rifles and cannons it aimed at Norway fell silent, the once-warring power would not take up arms again. For the next two centuries, Sweden embraced a ...
It formally joined on Thursday as the 32nd member, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality. Finland had already joined NATO in April 2023 in a historic move after decades of its military ...
World War I [b] or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.