WWII Alliances

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WWII Alliances
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Non-belligerent

• Country refuses to fight on someones side during
  the conflict.
• May not be completely neutral.

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Collaborationism

• Come together and help that side
• Actually fight along side them
• Give them supplies, weapons, food
• Passive do nothing. Accept that they have been
  conquered and go on with their way of life.

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Co-belligerent

• Comes in and fights during the conflict without
  having any formal agreement.
• Want something out of it in the event they win.
• Example Finland helped Germans fight against
  Soviets because they hoped to gain independence
  from the Soviet Union.

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Puppet State

• An outside country has put a government in place
  and that outside country directs the affairs in
  that country.
• Example WWII- Germany made Hungary a puppet
  state.
• Today US and Iraq?

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Axis Powers

• Berlin-Tokyo-Rome Axis Pact-
• Germany, Japan, Italy (1939)
• Where they get the name Axis Powers

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Axis Powers

• Tripartite Pact- (Nov. 1941)
• Hungary
• Romania
• Slovak Republic (Part Soviet Union)
• Bulgaria (1941)
• Yugoslavia (for only 2 days-then switch to Allies
  after coup overthrows leader)
• Croatia (April 1941)
• Thailand (Ally but Japan invaded after Pearl
  Harbor)

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Axis Powers

• Co-Belligerents
• Finland
• Iraq (Want independence from British)
• Italian Puppet States
• Greece
• Albania
• Montenegro

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Axis Powers

• Japanese Puppet States
• Manchuria
• Inner Mongolia
• Burma
• Philippines (Only half for independence from US)
• Free India (Part India wants British out of their
  country)
• Vietnam
• Cambodia
• Laos

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Axis Powers

• Collaborator
• Vichy France-
• Southern part of France led by Petain

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Allied Powers

• 1939- After Invasion of Poland
• Great Britain
• France
• Australia
• New Zealand
• Canada
• Nepal
• South Africa
• India (part of it rebels)

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Allied Powers

• After the Phoney War (French fighting the
  Germans -line up but no fighting yet from Sept
  1939-May 1940)
• Denmark
• Norway
• Belgium
• Luxembourg
• Netherlands
• Egypt

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Allied Powers

• Free France- Leader Charles De Gaulle
• Yugoslavia (remember they switched)
• Greece (Rid of the Italians and joined the
  Allies)

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Allied Powers

• Soviet Union- (June 22, 1941-after German
  invasion)
• Mongolia
• United States-December 8, 1941- (After Pearl
  Harbor)
• China
• Czechoslovakia
• US Territories
• American Samoa Guam
• Philippines Puerto Rico
• US Virgin Islands Cuba

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Allied Powers

• Pan American Union
• Costa Rica Haiti
• Panama Guatemala
• Dominican Republic Honduras
• El Salvador Nicaragua
• Mexico Bolivia
• Brazil
• Actually had military involvement

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Allied Powers

• After December by UN (if in UN and at war with
  one or more Axis Powers automatically Ally)
• Iraq
• Iran
• Peru
• Ethiopia
• Liberia

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After D-day

• Paraguay
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
• Turkey
• Lebanon
• Syria
• Saudi Arabia

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Neutral Countries

• Ireland Vatican City
• Portugal Turkey
• Sweden Switzerland
• Spain- Having Civil war funded by Germany and
  Italy
• Chile but then they sided with US
• Argentina at war with Brazil and Germany funding
  them
• Denmark and Norway at start but then invaded by
  Germany