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