 During the Second World War, Britain occupied Italian Somaliland and militarily administered the territory from 1941 to 1950.Faced with growing Italian political pressure inimical to continued British tenure and Somali aspirations for independence, the Somalis and the British came to see each other as allies.The first modern Somali political party, the "Somali Youth Club" (SYC), was subsequently established in Mogadishu in 1943.