What countries were involved in WWII?
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Germany, kind of Poland -germany started the war when it invaded Poland-, Britain, France, Austria, America, Japan, and Russia.
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You should look up something called "World War II." It's a little known fact that while Germany was killing Jews in Europe, the U.S. WAS FIGHTING A WORLD WAR. I'm sure that the U.S. would have loved to have helped out earlier, but they were preoccupied.  Invading Germany to free prisoners aint no trip to cleveland.  Here's a question, why didn't Italy, the USSR, England, Spain, or Iran intervene sooner?
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Most European nations were over run by the Nazis in WW2 and the French were at the front line on Hitler's plans to invade England. Some nations stayed nuetral, however Hitler was intent on not only conquering these nations, but plundering them as well.
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The events leading to World War II, its military operations, diplomacy, statistical data, and results, are discussed under the following headings:\n\nhttp://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_i.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, UK.
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Great Britain\nUnited States\nRussia\nFrance\nItaly--joined later (was part of axis before)
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Well a "war" is defined by an "open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations" it generally includes armed assault.  That said, WWII was a "war" b/c nations declared there be a state of hostility among themselves...the countries approached an impasse and used political pressures and militant power to try and resolve it.  \n\n\nSo, a list??  Let me try and generalize "war" in bullet-form.\n\n- Disagreement b/w one or more nations \n- Governments DECLARED OPENLY that there be a dynamic b/w the nations which includes forcefully trying to "get what they want."\n- Force in WWII included blockades, the killing of both soldiers and civilians, invading foreign territories to reach strategic targets to be destroyed, looting, raping, torture, etc. (no country is exempt from this laundry list of behaviors, some countries more guilty of certain ones than others, I won't name names).  \n\nHope my answer helped - if you need more let me know and I'll see what I can do.
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the first post is all there.\nthe only thing i'll add is in the east japan invaded china and korea, and progessed up to india, part of the british empire. this forced britain into a war with japan. america was going to attack japan, which led japan to a pre-emptive attack; Pearl harbour.\nalthough it was all WWII the war in europe and the war in the east were independant of eachother and both had their own starting points
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Anyone involved in WWII, Poland, the UK, Germany, Austria, Hungary. It wasn't just the Jewish people sent to the Death Camps, the Nazis hated everyone. \n\nTry this link but not if you get upset easily.\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html
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World War 11? \n\nI hope you mean WWII, future boy!\n\n\nEDIT: I don't mean to disparage the contribution your father made to his country...
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Japan & USSR.\n\nBut hostilities only lasted a few weeks (at War's end). Some historians would argue that the USSR declaration of war had as much to do with Japan's surrender as the two atomic bomb detonations.
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Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935 and Albania in 1939.\n\nHitler occupied the Rhineland in 1936, Austria in March 1938, the Sudetenland in September 1938, Memel in early 1939 and Bohemia in early 1939. His invation of Poland in September 1939 started WWII.
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allies included \n    * Union of Soviet Socialist Republics\n    * International Brigades\n    * Popular Front\n    * Albanian National Liberation Army\n    * Chinese People's Liberation Army\n    * Moldova & Bukovina\n    * Communist Party of Yugoslavia\n    * Greek National Liberation Front\n    * Malayan Communist Party\n    * Tudeh Party of Iran\n    * Mongolian People's Republic\n    * Polish People's Army\n    * Viet Minh\n    * People's Republic of Azerbaijan \n    * Kurdish People's Republic\n    * United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland\n    * United States of America\n    * Republic of China\n    * Union of Soviet Socialist Republics\n    * Commonwealth of Australia\n    * Kingdom of Belgium\n    * Canada\n    * Republic of Costa Rica\n    * Republic of Cuba\n    * Czechoslovak Republic\n    * Dominican Republic\n    * Republic of El Salvador\n    * Kingdom of Greece\n    * Republic of Guatemala\n    * La Republique d' Haiti\n    * Republic of Honduras\n    * India\n    * Grand Duchy of Luxembourg\n    * Kingdom of the Netherlands\n    * Dominion of New Zealand\n    * Republic of Nicaragua\n    * Kingdom of Norway\n    * Republic of Panama\n    * Republic of Poland\n    * Union of South Africa\n    * Kingdom of Yugoslavia\nAxis powers\n     *Germany\n     *Japan\n     *Hungary\n     *Romania\n     *Slovakia\n     *Bulgaria\n     *Yugoslavia\n     *Independent State of Croatia\n     *Italian Social Republic\n     *Thailand\n     *Finland
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During WWII, Canadians and Americans joined the British Air Force to fight against the Nazis before their own countries were at war.  That is a good example of fighting for another country against a tyrant dictator.
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World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict that took place in 1939–1945. It was the largest and deadliest war in history, culminating in the Holocaust and the dropping of the atom bomb.
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from 1939-1945 but the u.s. wasnt involved until 1941
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Yes, there was a Soviet Union in WWII. Stalin had purged (murdered) most of the officer corps just prior to the German invasion. The Red Army fell back at first, but then kicked the Nazi's a$$es from Stalingrad on. A couple of indications of the Red Army's might: the Japanese were afraid to fight them even though the USSR was fighting their ally Germany (The Red Army conquered the Japanese in Manchuria and China at the end of the war in a matter of days). The Red Army kept 300 German, Italian and other Axis DIVISIONS tied down, compared to a mere 30 fighting the US, Britain and all the other Allies on the western front.
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To answer your questions in order:\n\nYes, the Soviet Union (which included Russia) was an ally of the US and the British.  The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also called the Soviet Union.  Russia was a part of the USSR, but wasn't called Russia then), led by Stalin, signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler (leader of Germany).  This was in force until Hitler broke it and invaded the Soviet Union.  Stalin was taken unawares and unprepared, so Hitler did well at first.  Stalin therefore allied with the British and the US to fight the Germans.  The "cold war" didn't start until after WWII During the jostling for control over the states freed from the Nazis. \n\n*****\n\nThe USSR and the Japanese didn't work together.  The war in Europe against Germany) ended sooner than that in Japan (May 8, 1945 for Germany’s surrender and August 15, 1945 for Japan’s) and the USSR was free to declare war on Japan, which it did.  This was one of the reasons that the US dropped nuclear bombs on Japan.  It wanted to end the war before the Soviet Union forces entered the fighting, who would then stay and have control in that country and region.  \n\nAfter WWII Germany was divided into two halves, appropriately called West and East Germany.  The US, the United Kingdom (the British) and France controlled the West.  The Soviet Union controlled the East.  Germany was two different countries.  The US, UK and France set up a democracy in the West and then left (although the US left troops to guard against an attack from the Soviet Union, and many are still stationed there.  Now the bases are used as staging grounds for operations in the Afghanistan and Iraq).  The country they created was called the Federal Republic of Germany.\n\nThe Soviet Union established a country in the Eastern half, called the German Democratic Republic. This was not democratic though – it was communist.  The Soviet Union had many troops stationed there as well, and had a lot of influence in the Eastern half.  Vladimir Putin, the current President of the Russian Federation, worked in East Germany as a spy when he was part of the KGB (this isn’t a secret – he admits it freely and uses his excellent German in speeches).\n\n*****\nGermany played a very strong role in the War.  They were allied with Japan, but because they had some common enemies in their efforts to expand their territories.  In Europe, the war started when Germany annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia, claiming to be uniting the Germans who lived there (Austrians speak German and there were a lot of Germans in Czechoslovakia.  The moved there in the centuries that it belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austrian Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, which were all names used at different times to describe the same Empire ruled from the Austrian city of Vienna). At this point there was a lot of nervousness in Europe, as Hitler was using rhetoric such as “Germans need more land to live, which is their birthright.” But the British made a deal with Hitler that they would let him keep those countries if he didn’t go any further.  Hitler agreed, but he invaded Poland anyway, and kept going from there. He took France, Bombed England and wanted to invade, and moved through Eastern Europe.  He also invaded the USSR, as mentioned above.\n\nThe US at this point wasn’t involved.  Hitler made an alliance with the Japanese, who were engaged in their own war of expansion, because both were fighting the British and French (the British had a lot of Colonial holdings in the Pacific, and the French had some, too).  \n\nThe US became involved when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.  The Japanese wanted the US to withdraw from the pacific, but instead the US declared war on the Japanese.  The Japanese and the Germans were allied, so Germany declared war on the US, which then also entered the European war.  It was already helping the UK and the USSR with equipment and logistical support,