The Axis countries were joined by the Allies. These basically represented the same countries that had formed the Triple Entente during the First World War. At the head of this coalition force were the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.

The United Kingdom was in the war from the start because it was the world's great power and considered an enemy of Hitler's Nazism. The United States entered the war after the Japanese attack on its military bases at Pearl Harbor in the Pacific. The Soviet Union joined the conflict after the Nazi-Soviet pact was broken in 1941, when the German army invaded Soviet territory. This brought together the main forces of the Allies.


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Several other countries were part of the Allied forces in the Second World War, with China, Poland and the part of free France that was a major ally in the fighting occupying the second echelon of the group.

The Allies also included: Australia, New Zealand, Nepal, South Africa, Canada, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Greece, Yugoslavia, Panama, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, Korea, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, Ethiopia, Iraq, Bolivia, Iran, Colombia, Liberia, Romania, Bulgaria, San Marino, Albania, Hungary, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Chile and Denmark.

Brazil also joined the Allies after German submarines sank its ships in the South Atlantic. Brazil was the only South American country to send troops to fight on European territory. The Brazilian Expeditionary Forces (FEB) carried out an important military campaign in Italian territory at the end of the war.

The Second World War came to an end with the victory of the Allies over the Axis countries. Soviet troops played a key role in defeating the powerful Nazi army for the first time, crushing it more and more until it reached Berlin from the east. Meanwhile, the Allied forces, under the command of the United States and the United Kingdom, defeated their enemies until they reached Berlin from the west in 1945. With Italy and Germany down, the war ended in the East when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the last Axis power, Japan.

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