WW2 Allied Powers

Japan caused the US to get into the war not the other way around.

The UN did not exist during WWII. It was founded towards the very end of the war.

Hitler made the decision for the U.S. by declaring war on America (jointly with Mussolini's Facist Italy) on December 11, 1941 - 4 days after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

Why did Hitler declare war on the Americans? It could have been that he was over indulging in fulfilling his obligations to the Tripartite Pact that required military assistance versus any nation that attacked a signator (Japan, Germany, and Italy being the signers). But, America did not attack Japan, it was the other way around.

It could also have been that Hitler thought it was a way to get the Japanese to come into the war versus the Soviets. By December 11, 1941, the Germans were just starting to have setbacks in the attacks on Moscow and on December 5th, they had called off the attack. Although supremely confident in his victory, Hitler may have been trying to hedge his bets.

In America, FDR was all for declaring war on Germany (he had been waging an undeclared limited war against the Germans for some time with materials and anti-sub escorts for British cargo ships), however Congress was not. Even after Pearl Harbor, it took Hitler's declaration of war to get the Congress to act and declare war in return.

The free Polish army in WW 2 was those polish soldiers who escaped after their country was overrun by the Nazis and the Soviets in September 1939. The fought in the battle of France and later the Battle of Britain. In addition, after the Soviet Union was invaded by Germany, many Soviet-held Polish POWs were allowed to join the Western allies . They were released on the border of the Soviet Union and Iran. They eventually constituted the fourth largest army of the Western Allies. There was other Polish divisions and Corps which were part of the Soviet Army which eventually invaded Germany. Contrary to the general ignorance of the Polish armies, Polish soldiers were the equal of the Germans up to the level of NCOs beginning Sept 1, 1939. They were of course, at a severe disadvantage in numbers of troops and numbers of quality of armaments. They were also at a disadvantage in the quality of their officers in comparison with Germans. Man for man the German soldier was considered the best . However, if one takes into account the German advantage at site of battles in the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the average Polish soldier inflicted more casaulties on their opponents than they suffered . So all the fools who continue to believe the Poles were stupid and attacked tanks with horse cavalry, I guarantee you , you would not want to fight Polish soldiers of WWII in any sort of equal contest. I have seen interviews of German troops who admitted the armies they feared the most as the war came closer and closer to the end were the Polish and of course, the Soviet troops.

russia

usa

Britain

were the initial 3 nations but after a while usa gave part of their piece and split it with France

The Soviet Union, Great Britain, China and France were the most significant of the Allies (excluding US), which is why these five countries now hold permanent seats on the UN Security Council.

Japanese records were destroyed as the war was ending. Best estimates by some historians is approximately 50,000 aircraft built & destroyed.

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

....as it changed to the Central Powers however later during WWI...Italy joined the Allies. :)

There was a lot of pressure from the Russians to open another front and divert some of the German attention from winning on the Eastern Front. The Allies re-captured North Africa and used it as a jumping off point for invading Italy. Correct. The Americans wanted to join the fight against the Germans and North Africa was the only place where the British were currently fighting the Germans.

Britain, The USA and Russia

These are the Allied countries: Allies

Ethiopia · China · Czechoslovakia · Poland · United Kingdom · India · France · Australia · New Zealand · South Africa · Canada · Norway · Belgium · Netherlands · Egypt · Greece · Yugoslavia · Soviet Union · United States · Philippines · Mexico · Brazil

The countries who fought against Germany, Japan, and Italy (the Axis) were known simply as the "Allies." The primary nations involved were Australia, Canada, China, France, New Zealand, Poland, the UK, the US, and the Soviet Union.

Italy, of course, was later divided when it joined the Allies. Bulgaria, Romania and Finland likewise eventually fought Germany. Hungary and Iraq fought with the Axis for part of the war: Hungary against the USSR and Iraq against the British. Both Argentina and Denmark were pro-Axis governments.

Other countries who were involved or occupied, or who supported the Allies:

Albania (occupied)

Belgium (occupied)

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Ethiopia (occupied)

Greece

Guatemala

Haiti

Honduras

Iran

Lebanon

Liberia

Luxembourg (occupied)

Mexico

Netherlands (occupied)

Nicaragua

Norway (occupied)

Panama

Paraguay

Philippines (occupied)

San Marino (occupied by Allies)

Saudi Arabia

Soviet Union

Syria

Turkey

United States

Uruguay

Venezuela

Yugoslavia

If the question refers to the French resistance at Normandy in 1944, yes, they helped a great deal. Eisenhower credited them with saving a division's worth of Allies through their sabotage against the Germans and the information they provided.

June 6, 1944 The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between the German forces occupying Western Europe and the invading Allied forces as part of the larger conflict of World War II. Sixty years later, the Normandy invasion, codenamed Operation OVERLORD, still remains the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving almost three million troops crossing the English Channel from England to Normandy in then German-occupied France. The main Allied forces came from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, but a total of twelve nations contributed units, the rest being Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Poland. The Normandy invasion began with overnight airborne paratrooper and glider landings, massive air and naval bombardments, and an early morning amphibious assault on June 6, "D-day". The battle for Normandy continued for more than two months, with campaigns to establish, expand, and eventually break out of the Allied beachheads. It concluded with the liberation of Paris and the fall of the Chambois pocket.

The United States has complex relations around the world. For example, the U.S. is allied with Azerbaijan, but Azerbaijian is also an ally of the CSTO, and organization formed by Russia after the Soviet collapse in 1991. In the event of a war, Azerbaijan would have to choose wether to ally itself with Russia or with the U.S. With the threat of nuclear war so imminent this year, the U.S. has to sit down and think about who are really it's allies. The main allies are: The United Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Canada, Australia, Israel, Kuwait, the current Iraqi government, the current Afghan government (strained), The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Japan, The Republic of Korea (South Korea), Belgium, the Bahamas, and Denmark. In the event of nuclear war with Iran, however, it is unclear how many of the these would survive. It is also important to add that the territorial possession of countries like the U.S., The United Kingdom, France, and Denmark, such as the Northern Mariana Islands, the Falklands, French Guyana, French Polynesia, Greenland, and Guam, to name a few are also considered allies. While not to the extreme that you can call them enemies, nations like Pakistan, China, and Russia have complex and strained relations with the U.S., therefore not classified as allies. The enemies of the United States are almost anyone who is not friendly with the United States. The major ones are Iran, Cuba, The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Syria.

The President of US was Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The Prime Minister of France was Edouard Daladier.

The dictator of the USSR was Josef Stalin.

Only germany was considered a serious long term threat

Around 460,000-480,000 soldiers. Although a large number, it is relatively small compared to Germany and especially Russia.

10. Heinz Guderian

9. Isoroku Yamamoto

8. Gerd von Rundstedt

7. Erwin Rommel

6. Georgy K. Zhukov

5. Vasily I. Chuikov

4. Konstantin K. Rokossowsky

3. Walter Model

2. George S. Patton

1. Erich von Manstein

During WW II, The Allied leaders, especially Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain saw how important it was to start a second front (through Italy) to prevent Germany from putting ALL of their available military units on the invasion of Normandy. Germany pulled many, many of their military units away from Pas de Calais and sent them to Italy as reinforcements. Italy, an ally of Germany, was hopelessly unable to fight the Allies. The Italian military forces were poorly led, poorly trained, and poorly supplied with arms, food, and so on.

one of the main things is the Germans didn't know were the attack was going to be, the allies tricked them to think they were going to attack Calais's, but they attacked Normandy, operation overlord was a big success and was one of the main battled that won the war.

World War II officially started in Europe in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, Its invasion was swift and successful and Germany quickly began to overrun most of Europe. Many people in the U.S. ("isolationists") wanted to avoid involvement in World War II, believing that it was only a European conflict and that Nazi Germany would be satisfied with conquering Europe, but a few key people in the U.S. government, especially President Franklin Roosevelt, knew that the U.S. might not be able to defeat Germany if it was all alone, and did not believe Hitler would be satisfied even if he conquered all of Europe other than its allies. (Bear in mind that Russia had just signed a peace treaty with the Nazis in 1939.) England was the only country effectively battling the Nazis on the western front, so FDR was eager to help keep England fighting as long as possible until American popular opinion caught up with the reality of Hitler's desire for world domination. He was limited by laws that had been passed by Congress (the Neutrality Act) which was also isolationist. England was desperate to replace all the ships and other war materiel that had already been destroyed in the war, but didn't have the raw materials, factories, or people to do it quickly enough. The U.S. had ships left over from World War I sitting idle; the English had military bases they didn't need in various places; so FDR worked out a trade. With his knack for putting complicated concepts in everyday terms, FDR explained in one of his radio broadcast "Fireside Chats" that Lend-Lease was like lending your neighbor a hose when his house is on fire - which would help keep your own house from catching fire too.

Coal is valuable and it was especially so back then. And it was a hit to Germany that everyone wanted.

Britain, France, China, US, Russia.

It provided the Allies with supplies and weapons.