WW2 Allied Powers

Russia really doesn't have many international enemies, they are more trying to deal with domestic problems like the terrorism in Chechnya. The Only enemy they really have is probably Georgia which they fought a brief war with in 2008.(Russo-Georgian War) but relations are definitely improving now.

The battle of leyte gulf was important to the liberation of the Philippines

V-E day was Victory in Europe day, when Germany formally surrendered. It was a critical point because the war in Europe was officially over and the only theater left open was the Pacific. Therefore the Allies could focus on fighting the Japanese and not fighting on two fronts at the same time.

The US had always been isolationist except for brief periods before WWII. This policy had resulted in the US eventually becoming a combatant in two world wars. After WWII the US was firmly committed to the United Nations and various military alliances, such as NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organization), aimed at collective opposition to threats to world peace, and being proactive to prevent matters from getting to the point of war again.

Yes there was. They were the Axis, along with Italy.

To punish them for international aggression.

Great Britain, France,Soviet Union, USA, and China

The major allies of America during world war 2 were Britain and Russia. Of course there were many others, but these were two of the major ones.

Axis Japan (Germany surrendered May 7 1945)

Allies America (with New Zealand pilots)

The Axis are Germany, Italy, Japan, and their allies.

The Allies are USA, Britain, France, and anyone who was not neutral and not with Hitler and the Nazis.

A point of order: any country claiming neutrality would not be considered an Ally. Even when the United States was still considered 'isolationist', the government was instituting 'Cash & Carry' & 'Lend-Lease' programs.

That isn't to say that Neutral countries weren't attacked or invaded (i.e. Norway, Holland & Belgium).

allied forces led by General Eisenhower

England and France are in the same place, but the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. The borders of the Pre-war USSR bordered Poland. During the war, it ranged from the outskirts of Moscow to the outskirts of Berlin (yes, the war reached the capitals of the belligerents). After the war, Germany was split into 2 parts. Look up "Warsaw Pact" and that is your answer for the post-war years.

The invasion of Iwo Jima began on February 19, 1945, and continued to March 26, 1945. The battle was a major initiative of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. The Marine invasion, known as Operation Detachment, was charged with the mission of capturing the airfields on the island which up until that time had harried U.S. bombing missions to Tokyo. Once the bases were secured, they could then be of use in the impending invasion of the Japanese mainland.

US postage stamp, 1945 issue, commemorating Battle of Iwo Jima.

The battle was marked by some of the fiercest fighting of the War. The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified, with vast bunkers, hiddenartillery, and 18 kilometres (11 mi) of tunnels.[9][10] The battle was the first U.S. attack on the Japanese Home Islands and the Imperial soldiers defended their positions tenaciously. Of the 21,000 Japanese soldiers present at the beginning of the battle, over 20,000 were killed and only 1,083 taken prisoner.[11]

One of the first objectives after landing on the beachhead was the taking of Mount Suribachi. At the second raising of a flag on the peak, Joe Rosenthal photographed sixMarines: Ira Hayes, Mike Strank, Rene Gagnon, Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, and U.S. Navy corpsman John Bradley raising the U.S. flag on the fourth day of the battle (February 23). The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of publications. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography that same year, and ultimately came to be regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time.[1]

Within the next month of fighting, three of the Marines raising the flag were killed: Strank, Block and Sousley. Contrary to popular belief, the famous picture of the six men raising the flag, was not the first flag raising on the Island. Another smaller flag had been raised a few hours earlier by five other Marines who were the first to the top of Suribachi. The second flag was raised by these six after the Secretary of the Navy asked for the original flag that had been raised.

After the fall of Mt. Suribachi in the south, the Japanese still held a strong position throughout the island. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi still had the equivalent of eight infantry battalions, a tank regiment, two artillery and three heavy mortar battalions, plus the 5,000 gunners and naval infantry. With the landing area secure, more troops and heavy equipment came ashore and the invasion proceeded north to capture the airfields and the remainder of the island. Most Japanese soldiers fought to the death. On the night of March 25, a 300-man Japanese force launched a final counterattack. The Marines suffered heavy casualties; more than 50 were killed and another 119 Americans were wounded. The island was officially declared "secured" the following morning.

According to the United States Navy "the 36-day (Iwo Jima) assault resulted in more than 26,000 American casualties, including 6,800 dead."[12] To put that into context, the 82-day Battle of Okinawa lasted from early April until mid-June 1945 and U.S. (5 Army and 2 Marine Corps Divisions) casualties were over 62,000 of whom over 12,000 were killed or missing, while the Battle of the Bulge lasted 40 days (16 Dec 44 - 25 Jan 45) with almost 90,000 U.S. casualties of; 19,000 killed, 47,500 wounded, and 23,000 captured or missing.

After Iwo Jima was declared secured, about three thousand Japanese soldiers were left alive in the island's warren of caves and tunnels. Those who could not bring themselves to commit suicide hid in the caves during the day and came out at night to prowl for provisions. Some did eventually surrender and were surprised that the Americans often received them with compassion-offering them water, cigarettes, or coffee.[13] The last of these stragglers, two of Lieutenant Toshihiko Ohno's men (Ohno's body was never found), Yamakage Kufuku and Matsudo Linsoki, lasted six years, surrendering in 1951[14] (another source gives the date of surrender as January 6, 1949).[15]

The U.S. military occupied Iwo Jima until 1968, when it was returned to Japan.

It has been reported that many of the Japanese remains in Iwo Jima are missing their skulls.[16] It is possible that the souvenir collection of body remains continued also in the immediate post-war period.[16](See American mutilation of Japanese war dead)

People went to air-raid shelters to shelter from bombings during the Blitz.

WWII in Europe was a Land War. WWII in the Pacific was an Ocean War. Discounting the CBI Theater (China, Burma, India). The Axis (Japan) took islands in the pacific and fortified them into military garrisons/AIRFIELDS & NAVAL BASES. These were needed to "Protect" the Empire. The Allies (US, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) fought to take those island garrisons/AIRFIELDS & NAVAL BASES back. These were needed to "Attack" the Empire. That was the strategy. The tactics were NAVAL BATTLES. Whom ever won the naval battles; won the islands.

During World War II, the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943 was preceded by the Allied invasion of western North Africa in 1942. At the same time, Allied forces to the east, in Egypt, pushed a mixed German-Italian force westward until linking up with their compatriots in the invasion force, thereby securing North Africa and preparing the way for the invasion of Italy.

Hundreds of ways. to quote Sun Tzu (The Art of War) "All war is deception".

The allies employed dozens if not hundreds of deceptions for example: Pretending

that the landings would take place at Pais du Calle ( the shortest distance from Britain) by creating a false army using inflatable dummy tanks and vehicles presumably commanded by Gen. Patton. By sending false intel from captured German spies, like Garbo, inferring that Normandy was only a feint. By getting intel from broken axis codes.By building the floating bridge work to off load heavy weapons and material. And those are just a few examples.

The primary 3 were the United States, Britain and Russia. Additional allied countries included Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Also, displaced troops from invaded countries such as Poland and France fought with the Allied forces.

The British first of all made the first tank which was pretty big at that time.

The allies were a combined force of UK, Russia, USA, France, and Serbia.

Russia later left the war due to the Russian Revolution in which there Czar was killed and the government was changed into what is now known USSR.

The USA entered WWI due to submarine attacks on American Vessels by the Germans and a note sent to Japan and Mexico from Germany that asked them to join the war and attack the US.

The UK entered due to Germany violating a treaty that was meant to keep Belgium Neutral between the UK and Germany but in order for Germany to succeed in its plan to take down France it had to go through Belgium. Therefore the UK got involved due to this violation of the treaty.

As for Allied Military power, the Allys had more men and were attacking the Germans from a western front and a eastern front. The western front was combined forces of the French and British and later the Americans. In the eastern front was Russia and Serbia but due to the Russian Revolution, Russia left the war near the end but it prolonged the war because all the men from the Eastern front came to the Western Front.

The Germans had better weapons and military Material but due to the allies mass troops they lost.

Also when the Americans entered the war they drafted about 3 million people.

The atomic bomb. the strongest bomb in the world is the nitrom bomb!

Not sure what the first poster meant by "nitrom bomb". If they meant NEUTRON bomb, then they would be correct only in that the neutron bomb was designed to maximize casualties through radiation instead of the heat and blast of other bombs. The explosive "yield" of most neutron bomb designs is in the kiloton range. The most powerful atomic device ever detonated was the Tsar Bomba device detonated by the USSR on October 30, 1961. The original design would have created a 100 megaton explosion, but it was reduced for testing to a 50 megaton device. The test device is believed to be the only one of its type ever built.

The "strongest" weapon of world war 2 was indeed the atomic bomb - although their combined explosive yield was still only about 1/1000 of that of the Tsar Bomba device. Even so, the atomic bombs were themselves about a thousand times as powerful as any of the conventional bombs used during the 2nd world war.

United Nations

A vague question to being with, but probably not. America did most of the work in the pacific with little Soviet help but in the European theater it was mostly the USSR coming in from the east to capture Berlin while the western Allies (Britain, USA) were liberating countries west of Germany. So, in short, no. America and the allies wouldn't have been able to beat Germany in world war II without Soviet help, they would've most likely come to a peace treaty with Britain losing many of her territories in Africa and many countries in Europe would be German/

The Soviet Union became an Allied country when it was invaded by Germany on June 22, 1941. Germany and Italy declared war on the US on December 11, 1941; three days after the US declaration of war against their ally Japan. However, the Soviet Union did not move against Japan until near the end of the war, and only then because the US required it in return for Soviet territorial demands in Eastern Europe.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower was the Supreme Allied Commander during World War II. This is the common title given to the two Supreme Allied Commanders during World War II. He was not the Supreme Allied Commander for the U.S., per se; hence, the title 'Allied'. Eisenhower's official title actually was Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF), and it was for the forces in northwest Europe. The Second Supreme Allied Commander was for Southeast Asian, and it was called the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command (SACSEA). This post was held for most its existence by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten.