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What Is The Role Of Sweden In The Early 1900's

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Early 1900s Sweden was caught up in Napoleonic Wars. Made alliance with Britain, RUssia, and Austria in 1805 but two years later Russia pulled away from the alliance by signing a peace treaty in favor of the Danish invasion of Finland, part of Sweden’s realm. All of Sweden was extremely embarrassed when they were forced to surrender the Aland Islands to Russia and Finland. Later though in 1814 Sweden was in the process of expanding its territory and ended up defeating the Danish troops and united with Norway until 1905.

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