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WWII Alliances
Non-belligerent
• Country refuses to fight on someone’s side during the conflict.
• May not be completely neutral.
Collaborationism• Come together and help that
sideA. Actually fight along side themB. Give them supplies, weapons,
foodC. Passive: do nothing. Accept that
they have been conquered and go on with their way of life.
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.
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?
Axis PowersBerlin-Tokyo-Rome Axis
Pact-
Germany, Japan, Italy (1939)
*Where they get the name Axis Powers
Axis Powers• Tripartite Pact- (Nov. 1941)Hungary RomaniaSlovak 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)
Axis Powers• Co-Belligerents:• Finland• Iraq (Want independence from British)
• Italian Puppet States:• Greece• Albania• Montenegro
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
Axis Powers• Collaborator:
• Vichy France-
Southern part of France led by Petain
Allied Powers• 1939- After Invasion of Poland• Great Britain • France• Australia• New Zealand• Canada• Nepal• South Africa• India (part of it rebels)
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
Allied Powers• Free France- Leader Charles
De Gaulle
• Yugoslavia (remember they switched)
• Greece (Rid of the Italians and joined the Allies)
Allied Powers• Soviet Union- (June 22, 1941-after German invasion)• Mongolia• United States-December 8, 1941- (After Pearl Harbor)• China• CzechoslovakiaUS Territories:• American Samoa Guam• Philippines Puerto Rico• US Virgin Islands Cuba
Allied PowersPan American Union:
• Costa Rica Haiti
• Panama Guatemala
• Dominican Republic Honduras
• El Salvador Nicaragua
• Mexico* Bolivia
• Brazil*
* Actually had military involvement
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
After D-day
• Paraguay
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
• Turkey
• Lebanon
• Syria
• Saudi Arabia
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
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