Allies of World War II facts for kids

World Map of nations that fought in World War II.
The Allied nations are in green (those in light green entered after the attack on Pearl Harbor), the Axis nations in blue, and neutral countries in grey.

The Allied Powers (or Allies of World War II) were a group of nations that fought against the Axis countries in World War II. They were successful in defeating the Axis nations. The war ended in 1945. The group of nations was later named the United Nations by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. The main great powers, sometimes called "The Big Three", were the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

Some of the powers fought for a short time. Romania, Bulgaria, and Finland fought from 1944-1945 and before that were Axis powers.

These nations were:

Images for kids

The Allied leaders of the European theatre: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting at the Tehran Conference in 1943
The Allied leaders of the Asian and Pacific Theater: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill meeting at the Cairo Conference in 1943
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and their advisors in Casablanca Conference, 1943
Poland first to fight — British wartime poster supporting Poland after the German invasion, 1939
British Crusader tanks during the North African Campaign
British soldiers of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in Elst, Netherlands on 2 March 1945
Chiang Kai-shek (first row, second from left side), Mao Zedong (first row, third from left), United States ambassador Patrick J. Hurley (first row, first on left), 1945.
Soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army associated with Nationalist China, during the Sino-Japanese War.
Soldiers of the First Workers' and Peasants' Army associated with Communist China, during the Sino-Japanese War.
Victorious Chinese Communist soldiers holding the flag of the Republic of China during Hundred Regiments Offensive
Free French forces at the Battle of Bir Hakeim. (1942)
FAFL Free French GC II/5 "LaFayette" receiving ex-USAAF Curtiss P-40 fighters at Casablanca, French Morocco.
The French fleet scuttled itself rather than fall into the hands of the Axis after their invasion of Vichy France on 11 November 1942.
The fall of Damascus to the Allies, late June 1941. A car carrying Free French commanders General Georges Catroux and General Paul Louis Le Gentilhomme enters the city, escorted by French Circassian cavalry (Gardes Tcherkess).
Soviet soldiers and T-34 tanks advance in skirmish near Bryansk in 1942.
Soviet soldiers fighting in the ruins of Stalingrad during the Battle of Stalingrad.
American Marines during the Guadalcanal Campaign in November 1942 .
Philippine Scouts at Fort William McKinley firing a 37 mm anti-tank gun in training.
Members of the Belgian resistance with a Canadian soldier in Bruges, September 1944 during the Battle of the Scheldt.
Brazilian soldiers of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force greet civilians in the city of Massarosa, Italy, September 1944.
Ludvík Svoboda with Czechoslovak soldiers of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps on the Eastern Front in 1943.
Greek soldiers in March 1941 during the Greco-Italian War.
Soldiers from Luxembourg training in Britain, 1943.
Norwegian soldiers on the Narvik front, May 1940.
Pilots of the No. 303 "Kościuszko" Polish Fighter Squadron during the Battle of Britain.
Polish Home Army resistance fighters from the "Kiliński" Battalion during the Warsaw Uprising. (1944)

The Partisans and the Chetniks carried captured Germans through Užice, autumn 1941.

Partisan leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito with Winston Churchill in 1944.
Chetniks leader General Mihailovic with the members of the US military mission, Operation Halyard 1944.
Wartime poster for the United Nations, created in 1941 by the US Office of War Information
Wartime poster for the United Nations, created in 1943 by the US Office of War Information
A British poster from 1941, promoting the greater alliance against Germany.

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