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World War Two Edited By: Robert A. Guisepi Date 2001
The Belligerents in the Second World War
1. The Axis and Satellite States Germany: September 1,1939
Japan: December 7, 1941 Italy: June 1,1940
Hungary: April 10, 1941
Slovakia: December 1.1941 Bulgaria: April 24, 1941
Croatia: December 14,1941 Romania: June 22, 1941
Albania: December 17, 1941 Finland: June 25, 1941(Previously at war With the U.S.S.R. Nov. 30, 1939 to March 12, 1940
Thailand: January 25,
1942
H. The Coalition Against the Axis Poland: September 1,1939
Czechoslovakia: December 9,941 United Kingdom: September
3, 1939 (Government-in-Exile) France: September 3, 1939
Brazil: May 2, 1942 India: September 3, 1939 (Action taken by government in
London)
Mexico: May 22, 1942 Ethiopia: December 1, 1942 Australia: September 3, 1939 Iraq: January i6, 1943 New Zealand: September 3, 1939
Bolivia: April 7, 1943 Union of South Africa: September 6, 1939
Iran: September 9, 1943 Canada: September 10, 1939
Colombia: November 26, 1943
Norway: April 8-9, 1940
Belgium: May 10, 1940
Liberia: January .27, 1944 Luxemburg: May 10, I940
Ecuador: February 2., 1945
Netherlands: May to, 1940
Paraguay: February 8, 1945 Greece: October 28, 11940
Peru: February 11, 1945
Yugoslavia: April 6, 1941
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: June 22,1941
(Previously invaded Poland Sept. 17, 1939; at
war with Finland Nov. 30, 1939 , declared war on Japan August 8, 1945 Chile: February 12, I945
Venezuela: February 14, 1945 Uruguay: February 22, 1945 United States: December 7, I941
Turkey: February 23, 1945 Philippine Commonwealth: December7, 1941
Egypt: February 26, 1945 Panama: December 7, 1941
Syria: February 26, 1945 Costa Rica: December 8, 1941
Lebanon: February7,1945
Dominican Republic: December 8, 1941 Saudi Arabia: March 1, 1945 Nicaragua: December 8, 1941
Argentina: March 27, I945
Salvador: December 8, 1941 Honduras: December 8, 1941
Mongolian People's Republic: August 9, 1945
Guatemala: December 9,
1941
China: December 9, 1941 (Chinese-Japanese (begun July 7,
1937)
111. Axis satellites that subsequently declared war
against the Axis
Italy: October 13, 1943
Finland: September i5, I944 Romania: August 24, 1944
San Marino: September 21,19 Bulgaria: September 8, 1944
Hungary: January 2o, 1945 * From Twentieth Century Europe,
by C. E. Black and E. C. Helmreich. Copyright 1950 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Compiled from Katherine E.
Crane,"Status of Countries in Relation to the War, August 12, 1945," Department
of State Bulletin 13 (1945),230-241; Royal Institute of International Affairs,
Chronology of the Second World War (London, 1947). |