During World War II, in the summer of 1940 Italian armed forces completed the Italian conquest of British Somaliland. By the spring of 1941, the British had counter-attacked and pushed deep into Italian East Africa. By 5 May, Haile Selassie had returned to Addis Ababa to reclaim his throne. In November, the last organised Italian resistance in Ethiopia ended with the fall of Gondar. Following the surrender of East Africa, some Italians conducted a guerrilla war which lasted for two more years.