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The Allied Powers were a military alliance, so the term is quite straightforward. However, you might still ask why the opposing military alliance between Germany, Austria, and Italy, was not referred to as allied powers. We tend to think of alliance as a good thing, so when we are in an alliance we are the allies; when our enemies are in an alliance, it is more of an axis of evil kind of thing. In WW II people talked about the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis. It should be noted that Japan was not formally allied to Nazi Germany, although it became a kind of alliance in that both Japan and Nazi Germany were at war with the US.

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