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Map of the participants of World War II, with Allied countries before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in dark green, Allies after the attack in light green, Axis powers in blue, and neutral countries in gray.
English: Map of Participants in World War II: ; Dark Green: Allies before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, including colonies and occupied countries.; Light Green: Allied countries that entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
At the outbreak of World War II, the British Indian Army numbered 205,000 men. Later during World War II, the Indian Army became the largest all-volunteer force in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in size. [107] These forces included tank, artillery and airborne forces. Indian soldiers earned 30 Victoria Crosses during the Second World War.
Articles relating to the Allies of World War II (1939–1945). They were an international military coalition formed during the Second World War (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers, led by Nazi Germany, the Empire of Japan, and the Kingdom of Italy.
About 1.2 million Austrians served in all branches of the German armed forces during World War II. After the defeat of the Axis Powers, the Allies occupied Austria in four occupation zones set up at the end of World War II until 1955, when the country again became a fully independent republic under the condition that it remained neutral.
Alliances may be covert (as was common from 1870 to 1916) or public. [1] According to a 2002 dataset of military alliances, there have been 538 alliance treaties from 1815 to 2003. [2] The vast majority of the alliances involve commitments to come to the military support of one ally involved in war. [2] The vast majority are defensive in nature ...
In total Attlee attended 0.5 meetings, Churchill 16.5, de Gaulle 1, Roosevelt 12, Stalin 7, and Truman 1. For some of the major wartime conference meetings involving Roosevelt and later Truman, the code names were words which included a numeric prefix corresponding to the ordinal number of the conference in the series of such conferences.
First United States Army Group — Fictitious formation, created as a part of Operation Quicksilver.; 6th Army Group - Served in France and Germany from 15 September 1944 to 15 June 1945.