Allied Powers of World War II

The term Allied Powers (or simply Allies) refers to the union of countries that fought against the Central Powers in World War I and the Axis Powers in World War II. The exact make-up of nations within the Allied Powers was different during each war. The major allied powers during both World Wars were Britain, France, Russia and America.

## Contents

* 1 Allies of World War II
* 1.1 Neutrals in 1939
* 1.1.1 Oslo Group of States
* 1.2 Original Allies
* 1.3 Allied to the British Commonwealth
* 1.4 Allied to the Soviet Comintern
* 1.5 Allied to the Pan American Union
* 1.6 Atlantic Charter
* 1.7 United Nations Declaration
* 1.8 Four Power Declaration
* 1.9 Tripartite Treaty of Alliance
* 1.10 Others
* 2 See also
* 3 References

## Allies of World War II[edit]

### Neutrals in 1939[edit]

#### Oslo Group of States[edit]

* Kingdom of Denmark
* Republic of Finland[1]
* Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
* Kingdom of Norway
* Kingdom of the Netherlands
* Kingdom of Sweden

### Original Allies[edit]

* French Third Republic
* Republic of Poland
* United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

### Allied to the British Commonwealth[edit]

* Commonwealth of Australia
* Dominion of New Zealand
* Union of South Africa
* Dominion of Canada
* India

### Allied to the Soviet Comintern[edit]

* Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
* Albanian National Liberation Army
* Communist Party of Austria
* Communist Party of Belarus
* Communist Party of Belgium
* Chinese People's Liberation Army of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (from 1923)
* Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
* Danish Klassenkampen group
* Communist Party of Estonia
* Communist Party of Finland
* French Communist Party
* Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
* Greek National Liberation Front
* Hungarian Communist Party
* International Brigades
* International Red Aid (MOPR)
* Communist Party of Latvia
* Communist Party of Lithuania
* Malayan Communist Party
* Mongolian People's Republic
* Communist Party of the Netherlands
* Polish People's Army (Armia Ludowa) (from 1943)
* Popular Front
* Red International of Labour Unions (Profintern)
* Red Peasant International (Krestintern)
* Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine
* Communist Party of the USA
* Communist Youth International
* Communist Party of Yugoslavia (Yugoslav Partisans)
* Viet Minh

### Allied to the Pan American Union[edit]

21 members in full[2] [3] (Final Act of the Second Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics at Habana, Cuba, July 30, 1940)

* United States of America
* Bolivia
* Brazil (25 August 1942)
* Colombia
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominican Republic
* El Salvador
* Guatemala
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Mexico (1 June 1942)
* Nicaragua
* Panama

### Atlantic Charter[edit]

The Atlantic Conference : Resolution of September 24, 1941

* United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
* United States of America
* Kingdom of Belgium
* Czechoslovak Republic
* Kingdom of Greece
* Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
* Kingdom of the Netherlands
* Kingdom of Norway
* Republic of Poland
* Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
* Kingdom of Yugoslavia
* French National Committee

The Polish government in exile, after 1939 fought on several fronts with hundreds of thousand of members in the Polish Army in France and UK, as well as the Home Army in occupied Poland. The Soviet Union however, did not recognize the government and in 1943 organized the Polish People's Army under Rokossovsky, around which eventually became the post-war successor state.

### United Nations Declaration[edit]

Declaration by United Nations, January 1, 1942

* United States of America
* United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
* Republic of China (Kuomintang)
* Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
* Commonwealth of Australia
* Kingdom of Belgium
* Dominion of Canada
* Republic of Costa Rica
* Republic of Cuba
* Czechoslovak Republic
* Dominican Republic
* Republic of El Salvador
* Kingdom of Greece
* Republic of Guatemala
* La Republique d' Haiti
* Republic of Honduras
* India
* Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
* Kingdom of the Netherlands
* Dominion of New Zealand
* Republic of Nicaragua
* Kingdom of Norway
* Republic of Panama
* Republic of Poland
* Union of South Africa
* Kingdom of Yugoslavia

(Note from source document: During 1942 the Declaration was adhered to by Mexico, the Commonwealth of the Philippines, and Ethiopia; in the first four months of 1943, it was adhered to by Iraq, Brazil, and Bolivia).

### Four Power Declaration[edit]

Joint Four Nation Declaration, Moscow Conference, October, 1943

* United States of America
* United Kingdom
* Soviet Union
* Kuomintang

### Tripartite Treaty of Alliance[edit]

29 January 1942

* United Kingdom
* Soviet Union
* Iran [1]

### Others[edit]

* Ethiopia
* Commonwealth of the Philippines

## See also[edit]

* Axis Powers
* Axis of Evil
* List of military strategies and concepts

## References[edit]

1. ↑ League of Nations' Expulsion of the USSR, December 12, 1939
2. ↑ http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/7-2-188/188-26.html
3. ↑ http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/decade/decad058.htm Havana Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics, July 21–30, 1940