WW2 Allied Powers

During World War 2 the total casualty lost by the US were about 418,000.

Allies

"Jerries" ( A jerry was also slang for a Chamber pot, as it looked like a German Steel Helmet) Older soldiers would call them Huns ( In the 1900s Kaiser Wilhelm made a speech when he said that Germans on the way to put down the Boxershould act like the Huns--he meant that they should make others fear them) Older soldiers from the officer class often used the French expression Bosche Squareheads came from the briefing soldiers received on how to identify German soldiers from their square shaped helmets. Kraut (Crept into British palrance from US and Canadian troops) from Sauerkraut--stewed cabbage. Heinie -obsolete by WW2, was often used by older civilians, mainly Americans and Canadians--from Heinrich. "Jerries" ( A jerry was also slang for a Chamber pot, as it looked like a German Steel Helmet) Older soldiers would call them Huns ( In the 1900s Kaiser Wilhelm made a speech when he said that Germans on the way to put down the Boxershould act like the Huns--he meant that they should make others fear them) Older soldiers from the officer class often used the French expression BoscheSquareheads came from the briefing soldiers received on how to identify German soldiers from their square shaped helmets. Kraut (Crept into British palrance from US and Canadian troops) from Sauerkraut--stewed cabbage. Heinie -obsolete by WW2, was often used by older civilians, mainly Americans and Canadians--from Heinrich.

There were three. First, the Allies tried to get Greece to join them. They succeeded but the Nazis managed to take them over. Then, half of the USSR were taken over. Finally, a year before the war ended, France was occupied by Germany.

It was D-day. Also known as the invasion of Normandy (which is in France). It was a very planned out event by the United States

Alfred Thayer Mahan was a great strategist, and believed heavily in the power of a country's navy. His writings influenced every naval program the world over.

Hungary during World War II was generally opportunistic and a reluctant member of the Axis powers.[1] In the 1930s Hungary relied on increased trade with Germany to pull itself out of the Great Depression. By 1938 Hungarian politics had shifted to the right and its foreign policy had become increasingly pro-German and pro-Italian. After a negotiated settlement regarding territorial disputes with Slovakia and under subsequent pressure from Germany, Hungary joined the Axis in 1940. Although initially hoping to avoid direct involvement in the war, Hungary's participation soon became inevitable and Hungarian forces followed Germany's invasion into the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa in 1941. While waging war against the Soviets, Hungary engaged in secret peace negotiations with the United States and Great Britain. Hitler discovered this betrayal and in 1944 German forces occupied Hungary. When Soviet forces began threatening Hungary, an armistice was signed between Hungary and Russia by Regent Miklós Horthy. Soon after, Horthy's son was kidnapped by German commandos and Horthy was forced to revoke the armistice and was then deposed from power. In 1945 Hungarian and German forces in Hungary were defeated by invading Soviet armies. Approximately 300,000 Hungarian soldiers and 80,000 civilians died during World War II and many cities were damaged, most notably the capital of Budapest. Most Jews in Hungary were protected from the Holocaust for the first few years of the war. However from 1944 onwards (mostly during German occupation) Jews and Roma were deported and over 200,000 exterminated in concentration camps.[2] Hungary's borders were returned to their pre-1938 status after its surrender.

For the Allied Powers, Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the U.S., Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of England, and Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. These were the "big three" of World War II, and some might also include Charles de Gaulle, the President of France, to make a fourth. Note that initially, the Russians were allied with Germany until they came under German attack. The Axis Powers included Adolph Hitler, the Chancellor and Head of State of Germany, Benito Mussolini, the Prime Minister of Italy, and Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) the Emperor of Japan. There were other players, but these are considered the major ones. Use the links below to check facts and learn more.

The Battle of Midway.

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The surprise gave the allies the advantage, but there were some German troops waiting. There were much causality on both sides. Involved 3 million allied soldiers, sailors, and air man. Supreme allied commander was Dwight Eisenhower. 2,500,00 tons of supplies. 11,000 air craft. 3,000+ ships. While the allies were successful in taking the Normandy front, as general Eisenhower had feared it came at great expense. At the conclusion of the battle the casualties were as follows. 81,000 U.S . 1400 British. 100,000 German casualties. Hitler's army was torn apart. Allies pushed into Germany; Russia took Berlin.

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That actually began long before World War 2.

Britain and Russia had been historical allies for centuries until the US independence took place in which Russia continued to trade with the US despite British embargoes.

Russia continued to support and assist the US until the 1918s when Russia over threw the Imperial court. The US took great offense to this as it saw Russia as one of its most beloved allies and further saw the new government as the destroyer of a great nation.

By the time World War 1 had come around the US had only just begun to rebuild a good working relationship with Britain. A history that predates the US as the conflict is rooted in the US population that is more than 15% Irish and nearly 65% of Americans reporting some Irish heritage.

So, by the end of WW2 the US had a grudge against the new Russian government, the US and Britain were barely repairing older ties, the British has a grudge with Russia over supporting the US, and the Russians were edgy of both due to the uncertainty of support for their new government.

At that time the US was still closer friends with Russia than with Britain. It wasn't until the US agreement to join NATO that Russian - US ties began to fall apart. It finally went to complete animosity with the US support of long time ally China in their communist revolution despite having condemned to great extremes a similar movement in Russia.

It wouldn't be until the US abandoned McCarthyism outside of North America entirely and the founding of the Russian Federation that the US and Russia would begin rebuilding their historical friendship.

Russia and Britain have continued to have escalated bad relations since the founding of the Russian Federation.

Britian, Soviet Union, China, France, America, Poland, Australia, India, Yugoslavia, Greece, Guatamala, Belgium.

Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Serbia and the U.S

British troops under General Allenby

Chile was neutral during WWII. It was too far away to even matter. How do I know this?? I am Chilean. Plus, my grandfather told me and he was alive at that time.

The rationing really did not allow the city people to make their own yogurt. The dairy farmers could make cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, cheese and other things like ice cream. City people did drive to the farms if they had enough fuel to get to them to purchase dairy products, eggs, produce and even poultry, pork and beef cuts. There was a black market fed by the farmers and other people and believe me the prices were high.

they were forced fed live squirrel babies.

The Anderson Shelter was the first shelter that was given in World War 2 but i don't really remember the other air raid shelter

The question is complicated. To the best of my knowledge the Allies never counted the value of the things they took out of Germany, but they considered it "reparations" nevertheless. They also forbade the Germans from counting.

The Russians took much equipment, telephone switchboards, factories etc. Some of this was sent to them from Western Germany by the U.S. The Russians also used millions of German civilians and former soldiers as slave labor well into the 1950's.

The Russians also took a quarter of Germany and divided it between Russia and Poland, after ethnically cleansing its inhabitants. This was done in accordance with agreements with the U.S. and UK so should count as some sort of "reparations" deal that the U.S. and UK too were responsible for.

As a comparison, imagine if after the next war that the U.S. looses, Canada and Mexiko take over a quarter of the U.S. That would mean Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Nevada California, Washington, and Oregon, and of course the inhabitants would have to be kicked out back into the remainder of the U.S. and be replaced by Mexicans.

While the Russians took much equipment for the sake of rebuilding Russia, the U.S. France and the U.K. also took many things, but for partly different reasons. They wanted to get rich, and they wanted to make Germany weak so it couldn't threaten them again.

The Americans, UK, and French took liquid and movable assets such as tug boats, all the gold in the banks, and they kept on dismantling or blowing up German civilian factories well into the 1950's. The U.S. kept 10% of this equipment, most taken factories went to the UK and France and Russia.

The U.S. got very rich by stealing all German patents, and all equipment of an intellectual value, for example the tape-recorders that made AMPEX huge were based on equipment taken in Germany.

All the costs for feeding, clothing and housing the occupation troops had to be paid by Germany, although it is perhaps questionable if that should be counted as reparations.

Since the Allies had agreed amongst themselves that reparations would be in the form of slave labor, both the U.S., UK, and France used slaves, until 1949. The U.S. used several hundred thousand in Germany itself, it kept soldiers in the U.S. where they had to do the harvesting, and they sent 740,000 prisoners to France where many of them starved to death or died from accidents in dangerous work such as demining without proper equipment/training. The U.K. kept most of its forced laborers as agricultural fieldworkers.

Since the U.S. and U.K. prohibited private import of food into Germany, and themselves provided very low rations to the occupied population, the starving Germans had no choice but to sell all their valuables to the occupation troops on the black market in return for military food rations. Those who had nothing to sell, and were too weak to steal presumably died, especially in the "hungerwinter" of 1947.

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There were no reparations in money from Germany to the western allies after WWII. The reason is simply that Germany had no financial resources with which to pay. The country was ruined, bankrupted, wrecked, and occupied.

In the east it was another matter. In additional to mass rape, murder, and incarceration of common soldiers the Soviet forces looted the country of anything they could steal. Since Germany had little money to steal, the Soviets stole trains, art, automobiles, furniture, plumbing fixtures, bathtubs, jewelry, and power plants. They broke into private homes and looted all the possessions of the inhabitants. Any who resisted were murdered on the spot. Museums in Russia still contain vast amounts of the stolen art, as they do additional stolen art from their Spanish campaign, just prior to WWII.

Americans did not have government sanctioned robbery but individual soldiers often broke into museums and art galleries and stole priceless antiquities. Much damage was done to these artifacts. Newspaper articles still come out occassionally where some member of the US Army has died and his decendants have found a pricelss sword or book from a German museum. There doesn't seem to be much morale quality in these people because every article I have seen on this topic indicates these people hold the items for ransom, demanding hard cash from the Germany government, before they will return the stolen items. Generally the Germans cough up the money, trying to restore their heritage. Personnally I'd like to see the USA government get involved and start prosecuting those who stole these materials and did not make an honest attempt to restore them to their rightful owners.

Otherwise, the French took 'reparations' in the form of slave labor. Thousand of German POWs were forced to work in French coal mines where about 5,000 died. Many German troops, who would have starved otherwise, 'joined' the French army and fought in that countries Vietnam war.

I know of no such brutality or looting taking place from the other victorious nation, Britain. In fact, the British took the lead in providing basic food supplies to the starving civilians in their part of occupied Germany. British civilians underwent deprivation and rationing for several years after the war in order to ensure these supplies were adequate. This should be contrasted with the brutal treatment of the British on German civilians after WWI. In that conflict, even after the armistice was signed and all fighting had stopped, the British continued to hold their blockade in place, causing an estimate 1,000,000 German babies to die in 1919.

Camp X was actually called " SOE location 103" and was a SOE ( Secret Operations Executive" training camp for secret agents who would be inserted in to Occupied Europe, to train the resistance forces, and to spy on the Germans, and send information back to SOE headquarters, in London.

Located just west of Oshawa, Ontario, on 125 acres of farmland on the shore of Lake Ontario, the camp was on the "Top Secret " list, and even locals didn't know what went on there.

A number of buildings were built to provide classrooms and living accomodations, as well as a radio station and transmitter tower. Eventually, that station, called "HYDRA" would become a direct link between Rossevelt and Churchill, thur a series of direct telephone lines in the USA, Canada , and the UK, with the trans Atlantic link provided by HYDRA's radio station. When either leader wanted to spaek direct to the other, the HYDRA system was used, to provide a secure comms link.

Agents were selected from many walks of life, and were both male and female, with language ability the most important quality that was sought after. Being a native speaker of a European langauge was most important, because the other skills could be taught at the school. Many agents had escaped, on their own to Britain, from their home countries, and now they had volunteered to go back as secret agents, knowing that being caught could be their death sentence.

The screening process was very tough, and extensive, to make sure the volunteers were not "doubles" who had been sent by the Germans to work their way into the training program, to find out what was being taught to the agents. Trainees, were constantly being checked, in little ways to find their weakness, such as being awakened from a deep sleep, to see what language they would speak in first. Many were give assigments to "kill" somebody to see if they could do it. These were ways to "test" the agents.

The classes were varied and included radio use, Morse key sending and receiving, costume and makeup, secret writing, inks and dyes, knife and garrote use, parachuting, explosives and sabotage techniques, map reading, training resitance operatives, handling a spy network, German army unit identification, shipp identity, railway systems, and how to make a printing press.

The staff were unusual, as many had previously been criminals, especially those who taught forgery, or how to break into anything, including safes. Some others were regular army officers, but who had special knowledge, such as a man who had been the Senior Officer of the Shangai Police Riot Squad, who was the instructor in un-armed combat. He could fight off 5 men, with out any thing except his hands and feet, and he was 58 years old, too.

Another instructor was Ian Flemming, who later went on to write the James Bond novels. Flemming ran city training, in Toronto, where he taught the agents how to follow someone, and also how to lose a "tail". He also taught the use of brush and spin, the way to hand over a message on the run, and also "blind drops, and pick ups" and mail boxes of various types. He was also the "master of the house" who decided who was ready to go into action, and who needed "more time" at 103.

By 1945, the camp was winding down, as victory was in sight, but in 1946, the place got a new lease on life, with the defection of Soviet intelligence officer, Igor Gouzenko, and his wife and child. They were " stashed " at 103 for over a year, as he filled in the RCMP's secret service interrogators about Soviet spies in the west, including in Canada.

He knew a lot of stuff, and he was singing for his supper. He would become the best source of his times, on Soviet intelligence services and techniques, and in return, Canada paid him a pension and kept RCMP personal protection on him, around the clock for 40 years. He lived in Mississauga, until he died, in 1990.

Now a days, there is nothing left of Camp X, only a memorial next to the lake. A huge Ontario Liquor Board warehouse sits on the site. There is a Camp X musueum, at the Oshawa municipal airport, and a number of books have been written about it, and it's graduates.

The Allies of the USA include, France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Israel, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia.