WW2 Allied Powers

Several European countries joined the Western Allies at different times during World War 2. In total 19 European countries joined the Allies from 1939 to 1945. The very first European countries to join the Allies and which were the original Allies were Poland, United Kingdom and France. The alliances between these three original allies pre-date WWII. After WWII other countries joined the Allies: Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands (these four countries joined as "governments in exile"), Greece, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. Later on during the war other European countries joined the Western Allied Forces: Italy, Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, San Marino, Albania, Hungary and Finland which was the last European country to join the Allies during the war in 1945 as co-belligerent.

The USA joined the Western Allies in 1941 after the attack to Pearl Harbour.

To be confirmed by others, but I'm certain that Irish people did serve on the Allies side in WW2 but only as members/volunteers of the British army. Ireland was officially neutral in WW2. I heard/read that British soldiers marooned off the coast of Ireland were interred in Irish "POW" camps in Ireland. These camps were pretty lax though, allowing them to be out during the day but had to be back in camp at nightfall.

Western Bloc

German naval losses were heavier than their army losses in the invasion of Norway. Germany lost 10 destroyers three cruisers and their two pocket battle ships were badly damaged. The Allies lost one British aircraft carrier, one cruiser and nine destroyers.

The United States, Great Britain and France were all part of the Big Four. They continued to trade amongst each other because they were on each other's sides. They were also plotting to make the Central Powers pay for their part in the war with land, goods, livestock and money. They wanted most to divide up Germany's colonies.

At high level conferences earlier in the war it had already been decided that Germany would be divided into "Zones of Occupation", with Great Britain, France, the US and the Soviet Union each having a Zone. Berlin was ninety miles deep in the Russian Zone but was also divided into four zones for each of the allied powers. Thousands of German civilians and soldiers tried to head west in the final days of the war, to surrender to the western allies and stay out of the hands of the Russians. Germany was also swarming with millions of "DP"s - "displaced persons". Most of these were former slave laborers taken by the Nazis from their home countries and forced to work in German mines, industry, and agriculture, refugees from the east fleeing before the advancing Red Army, freed prisoners of war, and concentration camp survivors. The western allies had lists of wanted war criminals, including most high ranking Nazis. Any SS personnel that could be found were detained to investigate possible war crimes charges against them. SS personnel knew they were wanted and tried to pass as civilians or regular Wehrmacht soldiers, but many were given away by the SS practice of tattooing SS men with their blood type on the inner left arm. Millions of German troops were herded into POW stockades. In the Russian Zone the commanders gave their troops free rein to rape, kill and rob. Several hundred thousand German females were raped by the Russians, including extremely young little girls and very old women. The Russians deliberately allowed the Asian troops, Mongolians, to be the first into Berlin for this orgy of violence, and revenge for the savage cruelty and brutality the Germans had exhibited when they were advancing into Russia.

The western allies began an immediate "denazification" process. Only about ten per cent of Germans had been Nazi Party members, but they often included low level politicians who were hoping party memberships would advance their careers. The Germans are meticulous record-keepers so there were membership lists. All these local officials with Nazi Party affiliations had to be removed and suitable, competent substitutes found. Allied Military Government (AMG) under the leadership of US General Lucius Clay had to see to all governmental functions, and also try to get basic services like water, electricity and telephones functioning. It was a monumental task.

Germany was devastated. Many of its major cities were complete ruins. Berlin was over 90% destroyed. Dams were broken, power plants were rubble, every bridge was destroyed, railroad tracks, train yards, engines and train cars had been bombed to splinters. The devastation was near complete.

Because German agriculture had been run on slave labor during the war, and the slaves were freed as the allies advanced into Germany in the first months of 1945, no one planted a crop in Germany in 1945. Hunger was widespread, real hunger, actual starvation. Civilians were reduced to living on what they could beg from the occupiers. Many women were forced to become prostitutes for the necessities of life.

There was a still a war going on in the Pacific, and many of the troops in Germany were needed to bring it to a close, since almost no one yet knew anything of the atomic bombs, and those who did know did not know if it would work, or what would happen when they were ready and dropped on Japan. Germany's submarines had sunk thousands of British and American ships during the war, and there was only so much scarce shipping available to bring food to Europe to feed the destitute people who yesterday were trying to kill us, and also to redeploy millions of men to the Pacific, to bring the Japanese slaughter of Asians and Americans to an end. What food did get to Europe went to feed civilians and DPs, and the former German soldiers were at the end of the line. Somewhere around 53,000 German POWs died in American POW camps in late 1945 and early 1946, many from starvation.

The Russians even before the end of the war had become confrontational and immediately began trying to bully the Americans, British and French out of Berlin and Germany all together. The Russians had agreed to allow road and rail access to Berlin but closed these off, without explanation. Truman made the decision to feed Berlin by air, in the "Berlin Airlift". Not only food but coal for heating and electricity generation had to flown in to the two airfields the allies had access to inside West Berlin, enough to support five million people in Berlin. For almost a year a plane landed about every minute, around the clock. The people of West Berlin and Germany deeply appreciated this tremendously costly American effort to save them from the grasping Russians, and any who still needed convincing became fast friends of America and have remained so since.

Since 1986 when Lord Monkey Chims surrendered to the Banana King, the Japanese were able to conceive back the lands of the banana country from the cluthes of the monkeys causing very few casualties .

The United States contributed many things: 1. Money

-The Allies were able to borrow $10.5 billion from sources in the United States, and $3.5 billion of that sum was raised before the United States entered the war. 2. Supplies

-American manufacturers made war materials to Allied specifications and shipped them to the Allies.

3. The Red Cross

-That one is kind of self-explanatory. 4. Troops

-I would like to call your attention to the 369th Infantry which was loaned to France for a good while, but that's not all. Americans did a lot of fighting for the Allies in World War I.

In my opinion there is two main points that allowed the Allies to win the war in the European theater. The first one is when the Russians were able to stall the Germans at Stalingrad. If the Russians would have lost Stalingrad Germany would've had little resistance on their march to Moscow. The second happened when Allied forces were able to halt the last major offensive of the Germans in the Ardennes Mountains of Belgium all so known as the Battle of the Bulge.

The leaders of the axis powers where Benito Mussolini ( Italy), Adolf Hitler (Germany) and Emperor Hirohito(Japan). The leaders of the allies were Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S), Winston Churchill (Great Britain), and the leaders of the other European countries at the time. (Many of the leaders of the European countries at the time weren't well known or were very popular.) I hope this info will help.

The Soviet Union had been invaded by Napoleon and the Germans.

Victory.

The trigger to the US actually declaring war was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Prior to this the US was actively supporting Great Britain against Germany by Lend-lease. There was a strong feeling of Isolationism in the US, & it is doubtful that the British could have been effective in Europe had the US not sided with the Allies. It does beg the question what the world would now be like had the US remained neutral....

The UN (United Nations) was formed in 1945. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was formed in 1949. ANZUS (Australia New Zealand United States Treaty) was formed in 1951. SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) was formed in 1954/1955; was dissolved in 1977, when Pakistan & France withdrew.

1. Canada 2. Mexico 3. Brazil 4. Argentina (lots and lots of island nations, including countries that border Russia discluding China North Korea and Mongolia) 5. every European nation 6. Russia 7. Japan 8. South Korea 9. Australia 10. New Zealand 11. Thailand 12. India 13. Pakistan 14. Saudi Arabia 15. Israel 16. Jordan 17. Egypt 18. South Africa 19. Morocco 20. Qatar 21. UAE 22. Kuwait 23 . Turkey 24. other NATO members/peace makers

People were displaced and died, property was destroyed, and eventually Japan was defeated and occupied.

its true

The first actual air raid took place over the skies of Venice, Italy in July of 1849. Unmanned balloons dropped bombs on the city at night causing fires and serious damage.

the allied countries in 1942 were the united states, the soviet union(russia) and great britian, the leaders were Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Josef Stalin and Winston Churchill

Three of the Alaskan islands were invaded and actually occupied by a large force of Japanese for well over a year. The US services lost thousands of soldiers in the battles, and to the weather, to reclaim them. On one island, several hundred Japanes even committed suicide to avoid capture.

So yes, the US has been attacked, has had a foreign force occupy land and has had foreign soldiers die in battle on its land.

Battle of the Aleutian Islands See the related website for the story of the invasion and re-taking of these islands.

The Allies tricked Hitler by having a French merchant ship drop a dead body with plans of a fake invasion to take place far west of Normandy and on high tide the body was dropped by the Normandy coast and floated to shore and was found by the Germans and delivered to Hitler and he moved a large group of his men to that point and left the rest at Normandy witch was still a lot of Germans and payed little attention to Normandy.

Hitler was taken by surprise and could not move his troops to Normandy and waited still thinking that there was an immanent invasion witch would never come. The Allies lost many men and the number would have been worse if the deception trick did not work. We should always be thankful that there were and still are people like that so willing to fight for what they believe in and to fight for other countries and for the United States of America these men were and will always be Heros.

While the bast majority of Soviet soldiers were conscripted, many did enlist for patriotic reasons; the actual number is probably impossible to calculate, but it was probably much lower than in other allied countries.

The factors mentioned allowed the allies to win the submarine war in the Atlantic. The ability of the U.S. to build the so-called liberty ships so quickly and in such great numbers and the broadening of the effectiveness of allied air power also contributed to attrition among the German submarines. Losses continued to mount for the Kriegsmarine, and they were running out of u-boats and had difficulty servicing those remaining as the war wound on.