Allies of World War II

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coalition military alliance

The Allies of World War II were the coalition of nations, led primarily by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, that fought against the Axis powers and ultimately secured victory in the global conflict.

Aliases (20)

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Western Allies ×18
Allied Powers ×13
Allied forces ×10
Allied forces in World War II ×5
Allied powers in World War II ×3
Allied armed forces in Europe ×1
Allied governments ×1
Allied powers (early in World War II) ×1
Allied powers and Italy ×1
Allied powers of World War II ×1
AlliedPowers ×1
Allies (after August 1944) ×1
Allies in World War II ×1
Allies of World War II (after 1944) ×1
United Nations coalition in World War II ×1
United States (during World War II intelligence cooperation) ×1
Western Allies in Europe ×1
World War II Allied leadership ×1

Statements (67)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	coalition → military alliance →
achieved	victory in Europe → victory in the Pacific →
alsoKnownAs	United Nations (wartime alliance) →
conflict	World War II →
expandedSignificantlyInYear	1941 →
formedInYear	1939 →
ideologicalBasis	opposition to Axis expansionism →
included	Australia → Belgium → Brazil → Canada → China → Colombia → Cuba → Czechoslovakia → Denmark → Ethiopia → France → Free French Forces → Greece → India → Iran → Iraq → Liberia → Luxembourg → Mexico → Netherlands → New Zealand → Norway → Philippines → Poland → Saudi Arabia → South Africa → Soviet Union → Turkey → Union of South Africa → United Kingdom → United States → Yugoslavia →
keyConference	Potsdam Conference → Tehran Conference → Yalta Conference →
ledTo	establishment of the United Nations →
mainLeaders	Franklin D. Roosevelt → Joseph Stalin → Winston Churchill →
majorMembers	China → France → Soviet Union → United Kingdom → United States →
opposed	Axis powers →
outcome	defeat of Axis powers →
primaryOpponents	Empire of Japan → Fascist Italy → Nazi Germany →
region	global →
signedKeyDocument	Declaration by United Nations →
succeededBy	postwar Western and Eastern blocs in Cold War context →
theaterOfOperations	Eastern Front → European Theater → Mediterranean Theater → North African Campaign → Pacific Theater →
usedCollectiveName	Big Three for main leaders →

Referenced by (282)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
15th Army Group → 1st Parachute Brigade → 21st Army Group ("Allies") → 2nd Belorussian Front → 2nd Belorussian Front ("Allied powers") → 2nd New Zealand Division → 2nd Polish Army → Allied Combined Operations Headquarters → Allied Expeditionary Air Force ("Western Allies") → Allied Land Forces → Allied Naval Expeditionary Force → Allied Naval Forces → British Second Army ("Allies") → British Second Army ("Western Allies") → Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander (Dwight D. Eisenhower) ("Allied Powers") → Churchill government ("Allied powers") → Combined Chiefs of Staff ("Allied powers") → Commander of 21st Army Group → Commander, South Pacific Area → Commander-in-Chief Allied Armies in Italy → Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Command → Czechoslovak Air Force → Eighth Army → First Allied Airborne Army ("Western Allies") → First Canadian Army → General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Second Army ("Allied forces in World War II") → HMNZS Achilles ("Allied powers") → Mediterranean Allied Air Forces → Morale Operations Branch ("Allied powers") → New Zealand forces ("Allies") → Operation Fortitude → Polish Armed Forces in the West → Seventh Air Force → Southwestern Front Air Forces → Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front → Soviet Don Front → Third United States Army → U.S. Fifth Army → USS Vincennes → VII Corps → VIII Corps (United Kingdom) → XIII Corps → Yugoslav Royal Air Force →	alliance
Allied invasion of Sicily → Battle for Rome → Battle of Guadalcanal → Battle of Tobruk (1942) ("Allied powers") → CBI Theater ("Allied powers") → Capture of Cologne ("Western Allies") → Capture of Frankfurt ("Western Allies") → D-Day ("Allies") → European theatre of World War II ("Allied powers") → HMS Zulu → Husky ("Allies") → Mediterranean Theater of Operations ("Allied powers") → North African campaign ("Allies") → Operation Avalanche ("Allies") → Operation Baytown ("Allies") → Operation Bodyguard ("Allies") → Operation Capital ("Allies") → Operation Chronicle → Operation Ladbroke ("Allies") → Operation Market Garden → Operation Overlord ("Allied powers") → Operation Slapstick ("Allies") → Operation Vulcan ("Allies") → Pacific theater commands → Ryukyu Islands campaign ("Allies") → Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) ("Allied powers") → South Pacific Area command ("Allies") →	belligerent
100th Rifle Division → 1st South African Division → 21st Army (Red Army) → 26th Army (Red Army) → 322nd Rifle Division ("Allies") → 37th Army (Red Army) → 57th Army (Red Army) → 9th Army (Red Army) → Allied Naval Expeditionary Force ("Allies") → Battle of Perekop (1941) → Battle of the Volturno Line → French XIX Corps → Georges Catroux → Gheorghe Avramescu ("Allies of World War II (after 1944)") → Kharkov defensive operations (1941) → Medal for the Defence of Stalingrad → Monty → Operation Capital ("Allied powers") → Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade → Red Army Reserve Front → Romanian 4th Army ("Allies (after August 1944)") → Southern Front →	side
11th Armoured Division ("Allies") → 12th Army Group ("Allied Powers") → 1st Airlanding Brigade → 1st Baltic Front → 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade ("Allied powers") → 6th Armored Division ("Allied Powers") → Australian 9th Division ("Allied powers") → British 1st Airborne Division → British 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division → British 8th Armoured Brigade ("Allies") → British X Corps → Fourteenth Army ("Allied powers") → I Airborne Corps ("Allies") → No. 4 Commando → Special Force → Special Operations Branch → Twelfth Air Force → U.S. Ninth Army ("Allied Powers") → USS Astoria → XIX Corps (United States) →	allegiance
Battle of Bir Hakeim ("Allied powers") → Battle of Dunkirk ("Allied forces") → Battle of France ("Allied forces") → Battle of Monte Cassino ("Allied forces") → Battle of the Atlantic → Battle of the Bulge ("Allied forces") → Burma campaign → Cyrenaica campaign ("Allied powers") → German occupation of Poland ("Allied powers") → Gustav Line ("Allies") → Nazi Germany ("Allied Powers") → Pacific War ("Allied powers") → Tunisian campaign ("Allies") →	opponent
Free French Forces ("Allied powers") → Guomin Gemingjun → Henri Giraud ("Allied powers") → Home Army ("Allied powers") → Italian Co-Belligerent Army ("Allied Powers") → Italy (1943–1945, co-belligerent with Allies) ("Allied powers") → National Liberation Front (EAM) ("Allied powers") → National Revolutionary Army → Polish forces ("Western Allies") → Slovak resistance movement ("Western Allies") → Soviet Air Forces → Viet Minh ("United States (during World War II intelligence cooperation)") →	alliedWith
Allied Naval Commander, Expeditionary Force ("Allied powers") → Allied military engineers ("Allied powers") → Big Week ("Allied powers") → Commander, Allied Land Forces, South West Pacific Area ("Allied powers") → Commander-in-Chief Allied Armies in Italy ("Allied powers") → Deputy Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force ("Allied powers") → Mediterranean Allied Air Forces ("Allied powers") → Operation Dragoon ("Allied powers") → South West Pacific Area ("Allied powers") → Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers ("Allied Powers") → Supreme Commander, South West Pacific Area ("Allied powers") → Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ("Allied powers") →	country
German occupation of Denmark ("Allied powers") → German-occupied Europe ("Allied powers") → Hiryū-class aircraft carrier ("Allied powers") → Holocaust ("AlliedPowers") → Japanese colonial empire ("Allied powers") → LebensraumPolicy ("Allied powers") → Reich Commissariat for the Treatment of Enemy Property ("Allied governments") → Reich government ("Allied powers in World War II") → Republican Fascist Party ("Allied powers") → Rome–Berlin Axis ("Allied powers") → Third Reich ("Allied powers") → Tripartite Pact ("Allied powers") →	opposedBy
ABDA Command → Allied air forces → Andrew Cunningham ("Allied forces in World War II") → Bertram Ramsay ("Allied forces in World War II") → Free France → Harry S. Truman ("World War II Allied leadership") → Rats of Tobruk → Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ("Allied forces") → United Kingdom ("Allies in World War II") → United Kingdom ("United Nations coalition in World War II") → United States Armed Forces in World War II ("Allied forces in World War II") → West Berlin Allied forces ("Western Allies") →	partOf
107th Rifle Division → 12th Army (Red Army) → Carl Gustav Fleischer → Ivan Susloparov → Polish Independent Highland Brigade → Roy Urquhart → Rubén Ruiz Ibárruri → Soviet 62nd Army →	sideInConflict
AK ("Western Allies") → Battle of Gabon ("Allied powers") → François Darlan → Iran → Ján Golian ("Allied powers in World War II") → Southern Kingdom → West Berlin ("Western Allies") →	alignedWith
Chetniks ("Allied powers (early in World War II)") → Czechoslovak government-in-exile ("Allied powers") → Greek government-in-exile ("Allied powers") → Polish government-in-exile ("Allied powers") → Yugoslav Partisans ("Allied powers") →	recognizedBy
Allied merchant shipping ("Allied powers") → Allied strategic bombers → Northwest Europe ("Western Allies") → The Hump ("Allies") → Werl Prison ("Allied powers") →	usedBy
Battle for Caen ("Allies") → Casablanca Conference ("Allied powers") → Italian campaign → Siege of Myitkyina →	hasParticipant
Moscow Conference of 1943 ("Allied powers") → Nuremberg trials ("Allied powers") → Quebec Conference ("Allied powers") → San Francisco Conference ("Allied powers of World War II") →	organizedBy
6th Army (Red Army) → Borneo campaign (1945) → Red Army Kalinin Front →	belligerentSide
Battle of Palembang ("Allied powers") → Battle of the Eastern Solomons ("Allies") → Soviet–Hungarian War →	combatantSide
9th Army (Red Army) ("Allied powers") → Operation Cherryblossom ("Allied powers") → Soviet 64th Army →	militaryAlliance
Ausland-SD ("Allied powers") → Axis ("Allied powers") → Axis powers →	opposed
V Corps (United States) ("Western Allies in Europe") → Victory in Europe Day ("Allied Powers") →	associatedWith
European Theater of Operations ("Allied powers") → Middle East theatre of World War II ("Allies") →	involves
Far Eastern Commission ("Allied powers") → General Headquarters of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers ("Allied powers") →	parentOrganization
Albanian resistance ("Allied powers") → Slovak National Uprising ("Allied powers") →	supportedBy
IMT Charter ("Allied powers") →	adoptedBy
Camp X ("Allied powers") →	affiliation
Tripartite Pact ("Allied powers") →	aimedAgainst
United States–Soviet Union relations →	allianceContext
Battle of Salerno ("Allies") →	allianceInvolved
SCAP ("Allied Powers") →	allianceRepresented
Italian Co-belligerent Air Force →	ally
Allied forces →	alsoKnownAs
World War II economic mobilization ("Allied powers") →	appliesTo
Combined Chiefs of Staff ("Allied forces") →	appliesToJurisdiction
HMS Zulu →	armedForce
Hungary in World War II ("Allied Powers") →	attemptedArmisticeWith
Columbia Aquila refinery ("Allied powers") →	belligerentInterest
Cash and carry policy ("Allied powers") →	benefited
Berlin Airlift ("Western Allies") →	carriedOutBy
Liberation of western Czechoslovakia ("Western Allies") →	combatant
South-East Asian theatre of World War II ("Allies") →	conflictBetween
Yalta Conference →	conflictSide
Berlin Blockade ("Western Allies") →	conflictWith
World War II defences ("Allied powers") →	constructedBy
Guadalcanal ("Allied forces") →	contestedBy
Henderson Field ("Allied forces") →	controlledBy
Polish Underground State ("Allied powers") →	cooperatedWith
United States European Command ("Allied armed forces in Europe") →	coordinatesWith
Italian armistice of 1943 ("Allied Powers") →	countryInvolved
Nazism ("Allied powers") →	defeatedBy
Herbert Backe ("Allied powers") →	detainedBy
Treaty of Paris (1947) ("Allied powers and Italy") →	endedStateOfWarBetween
Italian Social Republic ("Allied Powers") →	enemy
Italian Social Republic ("Allied Powers") →	enemyOf
Japanese 10th Division ("Allied powers in World War II") →	engagedAgainst
International Military Tribunal for the Far East ("Allied powers") →	establishedBy
V-J Day ("Allied powers") →	hasToDoWith
World War II forced migrations ("Allied powers") →	involvesActor
World War II battles ("Allied powers") →	involvesParticipant
Cairo Declaration ("Allied powers") →	issuedBy
Declaration on Italy ("Allied powers") →	issuer
British sector of Berlin ("Western Allies") →	memberOf
Kenneth Anderson →	militaryAllegiance
Max Horton →	movement
Crimean Conference ("Western Allies") →	negotiatingBloc
General Headquarters of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers ("Allied powers") →	occupyingPower
Gold Beach ("Allied forces") →	operatedBy
Mediterranean Theater of Operations ("Allied forces") →	operator
National Republican Air Force →	opposedTo
Operation Olympic ("Allied powers") →	plannedBy
Free French declaration of Syrian independence (1941) ("Allied powers") →	politicalAlignment
Italian Blackshirt divisions ("Allied forces in World War II") →	primaryEnemy
German Instrument of Surrender ("Allied powers") →	receivingParty
Berlin Blockade ("Western Allies") →	responseBy
Japanese Instrument of Surrender ("Allied powers") →	signatory
Berlin Declaration of 5 June 1945 ("Allied powers") →	signatoryPower
Southern Kingdom ("Allied powers") →	signedArmisticeWith
The Monuments Men →	subject
7th Panzer Division ("Western Allies") →	surrenderedTo
Poland ("Allies") →	WWIIParticipant