Question: When did the country that in 1911 seized Al-Berka's country from the empire that declined after the Crimean War become an Ally in WWII?

<P0-S0> metal fatigue is a 1996 science fiction novel by sean williams. <P0-S1> it is set in a world after nuclear war where the metropolis of kennedy in the united states has become walled off in order to protect itself from the decline of the rest the country. <SEP> <P1-S0> The Crimean War marked the ascendancy of France to the position of pre-eminent power on the Continent,:411 the continued decline of the Ottoman Empire, and the beginning of a decline for Tsarist Russia. <P1-S1> As Fuller notes, "Russia had been beaten on the Crimean peninsula, and the military feared that it would inevitably be beaten again unless steps were taken to surmount its military weakness." <P1-S2> The Crimean War marks the demise of the Concert of Europe, the balance of power that had dominated Europe since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and which had included France, Russia, Austria and the United Kingdom. <SEP> <P2-S0> during george's reign the break-up of the british empire and its transition into the commonwealth of nations accelerated. <P2-S1> the parliament of the irish free state removed direct mention of the monarch from the country's constitution on the day of his accession. <P2-S2> from 1939, the empire and commonwealth, except ireland, was at war with nazi germany. <P2-S3> war with italy and japan followed in 1940 and 1941, respectively. <P2-S4> though britain and its allies were ultimately victorious in 1945, the united states and the soviet union rose as pre-eminent world powers and the british empire declined. <P2-S5> after the independence of india and pakistan in 1947, george remained as king of both countries, but the title emperor of india was abandoned in june 1948. ireland formally declared itself a republic and left the commonwealth in 1949, and india became a republic within the commonwealth the following year. <P2-S6> george adopted the new title of head of the commonwealth. <P2-S7> he was beset by health problems in the later years of his reign. <P2-S8> his elder daughter, elizabeth, succeeded him. <SEP> <P3-S0> The participation of Italy in the Second World War was characterized by a complex framework of ideology, politics, and diplomacy, while its military actions were often heavily influenced by external factors. <P3-S1> The imperial ambitions of the Fascist regime, which aspired to restore the Roman Empire in North Africa and the Mediterranean (the Mare Nostrum, or the Italian Empire), were partially met with the annexation of Albania and the Province of Ljubljana, and the occupation of British Somaliland and other territories, but ultimately collapsed after defeats in the East and North African campaigns. <P3-S2> In July 1943, following the Allied invasion of Sicily, Benito Mussolini was arrested by order of King Victor Emmanuel III, provoking a civil war. <P3-S3> Italy surrendered to the Allies at the end of the Italian Campaign. <P3-S4> The northern half of the country was occupied by Germans with the fascists help and made a collaborationist puppet state (with more than 600,000 soldiers), while the south was governed by monarchist and liberal forces, which fought for the Allied cause as the Italian Co-Belligerent Army (at its height numbering more than 50,000 men), helped by circa 350,000 partisans of disparate political ideologies that operated all over Italy. <SEP> <P4-S0> Al-Berka (Arabic:البركة) is a Basic People's Congress administrative division of Benghazi, Libya. <P4-S1> As of the 2011 Libyan revolution, the area is simply known as a district of Benghazi after the Gaddafi era Basic People's Congresses were disbanded. <SEP> <P5-S0> As a result of this conflict, the Ottoman Turks ceded the provinces of Tripolitania, Fezzan, and Cyrenaica to Italy. <P5-S1> These provinces together formed what became known as Libya.