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00:02:20 1 Origins and creation
00:05:55 2 Major affiliated state combatants
00:07:06 2.1 United Kingdom
00:07:15 2.1.1 War declared
00:07:43 2.1.1.1 Colonies and dependencies
00:07:52 2.1.1.1.1 In Africa
00:08:50 2.1.1.1.2 In the Americas
00:09:16 2.1.1.1.3 In Asia
00:10:57 2.1.1.1.4 In Europe
00:12:19 2.2 China
00:14:41 2.2.1 Factions
00:14:49 2.2.1.1 Nationalists
00:19:16 2.2.1.2 Communists
00:21:32 2.3 France
00:21:40 2.3.1 War declared
00:25:27 2.3.2 Colonies and dependencies
00:25:36 2.3.2.1 In Africa
00:26:08 2.3.2.2 In Asia and Oceania
00:27:04 2.3.2.3 In the Americas
00:27:20 2.4 Soviet Union
00:27:29 2.4.1 Outbreak
00:29:06 2.4.2 History
00:33:11 2.5 United States
00:33:21 2.5.1 War justifications
00:34:45 2.5.2 History
00:36:56 2.5.3 Colonies and dependencies
00:37:06 2.5.3.1 In the Americas and the Pacific
00:37:41 2.5.3.2 In Asia
00:38:10 3 Other affiliated state combatants
00:38:21 3.1 Australia
00:39:07 3.2 Belgium
00:40:29 3.2.1 Colonies and dependencies
00:41:13 3.3 Brazil
00:42:49 3.4 Canada
00:43:25 3.5 Cuba
00:44:22 3.6 Czechoslovakia
00:45:08 3.7 Dominican Republic
00:47:25 3.8 Greece
00:48:43 3.9 Luxembourg
00:49:24 3.10 Mexico
00:50:36 3.11 Netherlands
00:51:33 3.11.1 Colonies and dependencies
00:52:39 3.12 New Zealand
00:53:46 3.13 Norway
00:55:20 3.14 Poland
00:58:24 3.15 South Africa
00:58:47 3.16 Yugoslavia
00:59:41 3.16.1 Resistance factions
01:00:43 3.16.1.1 Partisans
01:01:35 3.16.1.2 Chetniks
01:02:29 4 Client states
01:02:39 4.1 British
01:02:47 4.1.1 Egypt
01:04:04 4.1.2 India (British Raj)
01:05:00 4.1.3 Iran
01:05:07 4.1.4 Iraq
01:05:15 4.2 Soviet
01:05:24 4.2.1 Bulgaria
01:06:15 4.2.2 Mongolia
01:06:44 4.2.3 Poland
01:07:06 4.2.4 Romania
01:08:28 4.2.5 Tannu Tuva
01:08:51 5 Co-belligerent state combatants
01:09:02 5.1 Italy
01:10:54 6 Associated power
01:11:04 6.1 Albania
01:11:32 7 Self-proclaimed allies
01:11:42 7.1 Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea
01:13:45 8 United Nations
01:13:55 8.1 Declaration by United Nations
01:14:15 8.2 Alliance growing
01:16:40 8.3 Charter of the United Nations
01:17:56 9 Timeline of Allied nations entering the war
01:18:24 9.1 1939
01:19:48 9.2 1940
01:20:36 9.3 1941
01:22:19 9.4 Provisional governments or governments-in exile that declared war against the Axis in 1941
01:22:51 9.5 1942
01:23:17 9.6 1943
01:23:50 9.7 1944
01:24:16 9.8 1945
01:25:46 10 See also
01:26:14 11 Footnotes
01:26:24 12 Bibliography
01:27:45 13 Further reading
01:28:20 14 External links



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The Allies of World War II, called the "United Nations" from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945). The Allies promoted the alliance as a means to control German, Japanese and Italian aggression.
At the start of the war on 1 September 1939, the Allies consisted of France, Poland and the United Kingdom, as well as their dependent states, such as British India. Within days they were joined by the independent Dominions of the British Commonwealth: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. After the start of the German invasion of North Europe until the Balkan Campaign, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, and Yugoslavia joined the Allies. After first having cooperated with Germany in invading Poland whilst remaining neutral in the Allied-Axis conflict, the Soviet Union perforce joined the Allies in June 1941 after being invaded by Germany. The United States provided war materiel and money all along, and officially joined in December 1941 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. China had already been in a prolonged war with Japan since the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937, but officially joined the Allies in 1941.
The alliance was fo ...