

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:
- India
- Poland
- Australia
- France
- New Zealand
- United Kingdom
- South Africa
- Canada
- Norway
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Greece
- Soviet Union
- Panama
- Costa Rica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Nicaragua
- United States
- China
- Guatemala
- Cuba
- Philippines
- Mexico
- Brazil
- Ethiopia
- Iraq
- Bolivia
- Colombia
- Iran
- Yugoslavia
- Liberia
- Romania
- Bulgaria
- Finland
- San Marino
- Albania
- Ecuador
- Paraguay
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Turkey
- Egypt
- Lebanon
- Syria
- Saudi Arabia
- Argentina
- Chile
Images for kids
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The Allied leaders of the European theatre: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting at the Tehran Conference in 1943
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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
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Poland first to fight — British wartime poster supporting Poland after the German invasion, 1939
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British Crusader tanks during the North African Campaign
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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.
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Soldiers of the First Workers' and Peasants' Army associated with Communist China, during the Sino-Japanese War.
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FAFL Free French GC II/5 "LaFayette" receiving ex-USAAF Curtiss P-40 fighters at Casablanca, French Morocco.
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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).
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Soviet soldiers fighting in the ruins of Stalingrad during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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American Marines during the Guadalcanal Campaign in November 1942 .
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Members of the Belgian resistance with a Canadian soldier in Bruges, September 1944 during the Battle of the Scheldt.
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Brazilian soldiers of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force greet civilians in the city of Massarosa, Italy, September 1944.
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Pilots of the No. 303 "Kościuszko" Polish Fighter Squadron during the Battle of Britain.
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Polish Home Army resistance fighters from the "Kiliński" Battalion during the Warsaw Uprising. (1944)
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Partisan leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito with Winston Churchill in 1944.
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Wartime poster for the United Nations, created in 1943 by the US Office of War Information
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