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What countries were called the Allies in World War II?

The three major Allied powers in World War II (1939–45) were Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Their leaders were the Big Three: Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874–1965) of Britain, President Franklin Roosevelt (1882–1945) of the United States, and Premier Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) of the Soviet Union. These leaders and their military advisors planned the strategy to defeat the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan), although Stalin, for the most part, acted alone on the Soviet front. China, which had been at war with Asian rival Japan since 1937, joined the Allied cause along with forty-six other countries who became part of the Allied front before the war was over.

Poland entered the war on September 1, 1939, after being invaded by Germany. Within days Britain declared war on Germany. In 1940 Britain was...

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