![]() China had already been at war with Japan since 1937, and formally joined the Allies in December 1941. The United States, while providing some materiel support to European Allies since September 1940, remained formally neutral until the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, after which it declared war and officially joined the Allies. The Soviet Union, which initially had a nonaggression pact with Germany and participated in its invasion of Poland, joined the Allies after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Consequently, the initial alliance resembled that of the First World War.Īs Axis forces began invading northern Europe and the Balkans, the Allies added the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Greece, and Yugoslavia. They were soon joined by the independent dominions of the British Commonwealth: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. When the conflict broke out on 1 September 1939, the Allied coalition consisted of the United Kingdom, France, and Poland, as well as their respective dependencies, such as British India. Membership in the Allies varied during the course of the war. Its principal members by the end of 1941 were the United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union, and China. The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during the Second World War (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers, led by Nazi Germany, the Empire of Japan, and the Kingdom of Italy. "Long live the victory of the Anglo-Soviet-American military alliance!" – USSR stamp of 1943, quoting Stalin It declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy and joined the Allies in December 1941 after the attacks on Pearl Harbor. ^ China had been at war with Japan since July 1937.Through the invasion Haile Selassie returned to Ethiopia on 18 January, with the liberation of the country being completed by November the same year. After the outbreak of World War II, the United Kingdom recognized Haile Selassie as the Emperor of Ethiopia in July 1940 and his Ethiopian exile government cooperated with the British during their invasion of Italian East Africa in 1941. On, Emperor Haile Selassie I fled into exile, just before the Italian occupation on 7 May. ^ The Ethiopian Empire was invaded by Italy on 3 October 1935.This started a shift in allied policy from trying to improve relations with the Vichy Regime into full support to what was now the Provisional Government of the French Republic. A National Liberation Committee was formed by the Free French after the gradual liberation of Vichy colonial territory, which led to the full German occupation of Vichy France in 1942. They struggled with legitimacy vis-a-vis the German client state " Vichy France", which was the internationally recognized government of France even among the Allies. They worked towards France being seen and treated as a major allied power, as opposed to a defeated and then liberated nation. The " Free French Forces" was a section of the French army who refused to recognize the armistice and continued to fight with the Allies. Unlike the other governments-in-exile in London, which were legitimate governments that had escaped their respective countries and continued the fight, France had surrendered to the Axis. It was a member of the Allies until its defeat in the German invasion of France in June 1940. ^ France declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, two days after the German invasion of Poland.Following the outbreak of war later the same year, Beneš, in his exile, formed a Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee which after some months of negotiations regarding its legitimacy became regarded as the Czechoslovak government-in-exile by the Allies. In 1939 a German sponsored Slovak Republic seceded from the post-Munich Second Czechoslovak Republic, providing justification for the establishment of a German protectorate over the remaining Czech lands (the rump Carpathian Ruthenia-region being annexed by Hungary). ^ Edvard Beneš, president of the First Czechoslovak Republic, fled the country after the 1938 Munich Agreement saw the Sudetenland-region annexed by Germany.However PKWN was allied with Soviet Union and fought against Germany and Polish Underground State. It fought against Axis Powers (mostly Germany), Soviet Union and Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN). ^ Polish Underground State was allied with United Kingdom and United States. ![]()
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