Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Charles X ya mutu a watan Fabrairun 1660. Bayan watanni uku, yarjejeniyar Copenhagen ta kawo karshen yakin. Charles dan da magaji, Charles XI, yana da shekaru biyar ne kawai lokacin da mahaifinsa ya mutu, don haka majalisa mai mulki <unk> jagorancin uwargidan sarauniya Hedvig Eleonora <unk> ya dauki iko har sai ya kai shekaru. Sweden ta kusan samun iko kan cinikayya a cikin Baltic, amma yaƙin ya nuna buƙatar hana ƙirƙirar ƙawancen anti-Swedish mai ƙarfi wanda ya haɗa da Denmark. Akwai wasu nasarori a manufofin kasashen waje, musamman ma da anti-Faransa Triple Alliance na Ingila, Sweden, da kuma Jamhuriyar Holland. A farkon shekara ta 1672, Sweden ta kyautata dangantakarta da Faransa har ta ƙulla yarjejeniya da ita. A wannan shekarar, Sarki Louis XIV ya kai wa Jamhuriyar Holland hari, kuma a 1674 an matsa wa Sweden ta shiga yaƙin ta hanyar kai wa Jamhuriyar Jamus hari. Faransa ta yi alkawarin biyan Sweden tallafin yaki da ake matukar bukata a kan yanayin da ya motsa da karfi a kan Brandenburg. Sojojin Sweden na mutane 22,000 karkashin Carl Gustaf Wrangel sun ci gaba zuwa Brandenburg a watan Disamba na 1674 kuma sun sha wahala kadan a yakin Fehrbellin
a watan Yuni na shekara ta 1675. Ko da yake ba shi da muhimmanci a soja, rashin nasarar ya ɓata sunan kusan rashin nasara da makamai na Sweden suka ji daɗi tun lokacin Yakin Shekaru talatin. Wannan ya ƙarfafa magabtan Sweden, kuma a watan Satumba na shekara ta 1675 Denmark, Jamhuriyar Holland da kuma Daular Roma Mai Tsarki sun yi yaƙi da Sweden da kuma Faransa.