World War II by country
This is a list of all the participants of the Second World War on both the allied and axis side.
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Allies
[change | change source]1937
[change | change source]China (from July 1937)
1939
[change | change source]Poland (from September 1939)[1]
France (from September 1939)[2]
- FTR (until 1940)
- Free France (from 1940-1944)
- PGFR (from 1944)
- Algeria
- Morocco
- Tunisia
- Syria
- Fr. Somaliland
- Lebanon
- French Indochina
- Fr. Guiana
- Madagascar
- West Africa
- Equatorial Africa
- French partisans
- Libya[3]
- French-occupied Germany and Austria (from June 1945)
British Empire (from September 1939)
- United Kingdom
- India
- New Zealand
- Palestine
- Newfoundland
- Burma
- Malaya
- Belize
- Jamaica
- Br. Somaliland
- Br. Guiana
- Kuwait
- Falklands
- Sudan[4]
- Gibraltar
- Hong Kong
- Tonga
- Nigeria
- Malta
- Ceylon
- Gold Coast
- Kenya Colony
- Gambia
- Bechuanaland
- Uganda
- Sierra Leone
- Northern Rhodesia
- Southern Rhodesia
- Nyasaland
- Swaziland
- Basutoland
- Oman
- Libya[5]
- British-occupied Germany and Austria (from June 1945)
Australia (from September 1939)
Nepal (from September 1939)
South Africa (from September 1939)
Canada (from September 1939)
1940
[change | change source]Denmark (9 April 1940)
Luxembourg (from May 1940)[7]
Netherlands (from May 1940)[8]
Greece (from October 1940)[10]
1941
[change | change source]Yugoslavia (from April 1941)[11][12]
- Yugoslav Partisans
- Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (from November 1943)
- Yugoslav Committee of National Liberation (from November 1943-March 1945)
- Provisional Government (from March 1945)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (from June 1941)[15]
- Russia
- Ukraine
- Belarus
- Provisional National Government (from December 1944)[19]
- Polish People's Army
- Polish Committee of National Liberation (from July 1944 - December 1944)
- Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland (from December 1944 - June 1945)
- Provisional Government of National Unity (from June 1945)
- Soviet partisans
- Soviet-occupied Germany and Austria (from June 1945)
- Mongolia (from August 1945)
Ethiopia (from November 1941)[20]
Panama (from December 1941)
United States (from December 1941)
- Commonwealth of the Philippines[21]
- Guam
- Puerto Rico
- Greenland (taken after the German invasion of Denmark)
- Hawaii
- Alaska
- US-occupied Germany and Austria (from June 1945)
Cuba (from December 1941)
Costa Rica (from December 1941)
Nicaragua (from December 1941)
Honduras (from December 1941)
El Salvador (from December 1941)
Haiti (from December 1941)
Dominican Republic (from December 1941)
Guatemala (from December 1941)
Provisional governments or governments-in exile that declared war against the Axis in 1941
Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (from December 1941)
Czechoslovakia (government-in-exile) (from December 1941)[22]
1942
[change | change source]Mexico (from May 1942)
Brazil (from August 1942)
1943
[change | change source]Bolivia (from April 1943)
Italy (from September 1943)[24]
Iran (From September 1943)[25]
Colombia (from November 1943)
1944
[change | change source]Liberia (from January 1944)
Romania (from August 1944)[26]
Bulgaria (from September 1944)[27]
Finland (from September 1944)[28]
Albania (from October 1944)
1945
[change | change source]Ecuador (from February 1945)
Paraguay (from February 1945)
Peru (from February 1945)
Uruguay (from February 1945)
Venezuela (from February 1945)
Turkey (from February 1945)
Egypt (from February 1945)
Saudi Arabia (from March 1945)
Argentina (from March 1945)
Chile (from April 1945)
Axis
[change | change source]1937
[change | change source]Japan (from July 1937)
- Manchukuo (1931-1945)
- East Hebei Autonomous Government (1935-1938)
- Provisional Government of the Republic of China (1937-1940)
- Mengjiang (1939-1941)
- Recognised National Government of China (1940-1945)
- State of Burma (1943-1945)
- Azad Hind (1943-1945)
- Second Philippine Republic (1943-1945)
- Empire of Vietnam (1945)
- Kingdom of Kampuchea (1945)
- Kingdom of Luang Prabang (1945)
1939
[change | change source]Germany (from September 1939-May 1945)
- Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1945)[30]
- Slovakia (1939-1944/1945)[31]
- General Government (1939-1945)[32]
- Quisling Regime (1940-1945)
- French State (1940-1942/1944)[33][34]
- Croatia (1941-1945)[35]
- Nedić's Serbia (1941-1944)
- Hellenic State (1941-1944)[36]
- Italian Social Republic (1943-1945)
- Albania (1943-1944)
- Montenegro (1943-1944)
- Macedonia (1944)
- Hungary (1944-1945)[37]
1940
[change | change source]Italy (from June 1940-September 1943)[38]
- Italian Libya (1934-1943)
- East Africa (1937-1941)
- Albania (1939-1943)
- Croatia (1941-1943)[39]
- Hellenic State (1941-1943)[40]
- Montenegro (1941-1943)
Hungary (from November 1940-April 1945)[41]
Romania (from November 1940-August 1944)[42]
1941
[change | change source]Bulgaria (from March 1941-September 1944)[43]
Yugoslavia (25 - 27 March 1941)[44]
Iraq (2 - 31 May 1941)
Finland (from June 1941-September 1944)[46][47]
Thailand (from December 1941)
Neutral
[change | change source]Lithuania (annexed by the USSR in 1940)
Latvia (annexed by the USSR in 1940)
Estonia (annexed by the USSR in 1940)
- Angola
- Mozambique
- Timor (invaded by the Japanese in 1942)
- Goa
Tuva (Soviet satellite state, annexed by the USSR in 1944)[51]
Xinjiang (annexed by China in 1944)[52]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ As a government-in-exile after the Invasion of Poland in 1939.
- ↑ When France fell to Germany, almost all of the french colonies became colonies to the puppet state Vichy France. All the colonies were liberated by the allies from 1940-1943 (except for French Indochina who was invaded by Japan in 1940).
- ↑ Occupied by the french from 1942 to 1951.
- ↑ As a condominium of the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Egypt.
- ↑ Occupied by the British from 1942 to 1951.
- ↑ As a government-in-exile after the German invasion of Norway in 1940 untill the liberation of Norway in 1945.
- ↑ As a government-in-exile after the invasion in 1940 until the liberation of Luxembourg in 1944.
- ↑ As a government-in-exile after the invasion in 1940 until the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945.
- ↑ As a government-in-exile after the invasion in 1940 until the liberation of Belgium in 1944.
- ↑ A a government-in-exile after the invasion in 1941 until the liberation of Greece in 1944.
- ↑ Joined the allies due to a coup against the axis and formed an allied government (and then being invaded by the axis the next month).
- ↑ As a government-in-exile after the Invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941 until joining the Yugoslav Committee of National Liberation to form the Provisional Government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia in 1945.
- ↑ At the start of the occupation, the Chetniks fought with the Yugoslav Partisans against the Axis Powers. But in late 1941, the Chetniks started to collaborate with the axis against Tito’s partisans. And they continued to do so until the end of the war.
- ↑ Democratic Republic of Vietnam declared on 2 September 1945 (the same day World War II ended).
- ↑ Before Operation Barbarossa in 1941, the Soviets invaded Poland in 1939. 2 weeks after Germany invaded. Then the Soviets invaded Finland a few months later (but they didn’t annex all of Finland). Then the Soviets annexed Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Bessarabia in august 1940.
- ↑ Gosztony, Peter. Stalins Fremde Heere, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, 1991. ISBN 3-7637-5889-5
- ↑ Иностранные войска, созданные Советским Союзом для борьбы с нацизмом (in Russian). Центрполиграф. 2024. ISBN 9785046032826.
- ↑ https://theorangefiles.hu/the-provisional-national-government-1945/
- ↑ Debrecen government operated in the Soviet-occupied territory of Hungary, while the Nazi-backed government in Budapest continued the war on the side of Germany.[16][17][18].
- ↑ After being liberated by the British in 1941.
- ↑ As a government-in-exile after the invasion in 1941 until the liberation of the Philippines in 1945.
- ↑ The Czechoslovak government would return to Czechoslovakia after the country’s liberation in 1945.
- ↑ At this point, Iraq was occupied by the British after an invasion in 1941.
- ↑ Joined the allies due to the allied invasion that month. A few months earlier Mussolini was deposed from power. Italy signed peace with the allies and formed in allied government (and going under allied occupation).
- ↑ At this point Iran was occupied by the allies after an allied invasion in 1941 to protect the supply line that went through Iran.
- ↑ Joined the allies due to the Soviet operation in august. With Ion Antonescu (the leader of Romania) being arrested and Romania forming an allied government (and going under Soviet occupation).
- ↑ Joined the allies due to the soviet invasion in September. With a coup by the Bulgarian resistance and Bulgaria forming an allied government (and going under Soviet occupation).
- ↑ Joined the allies due a soviet operation that had been going on for months.
- ↑ As a condominium of the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Egypt.
- ↑ Protectorate and partially-annexed territory of Nazi Germany.
- ↑ Occupied by Germany after the Slovak national uprising.
- ↑ Protectorate and partially-annexed territory of Nazi Germany
- ↑ During operation torch, (the allied invasion of french North Africa) the axis invaded Vichy France. But Pétain stayed in power until 1944 when France was liberated by the allies.
- ↑ When France fell to Germany, almost all of the french colonies became colonies to the puppet state Vichy France. All the colonies were liberated by the allies from 1940-1943 (except for French Indochina who was invaded by Japan in 1940).
- ↑ As a puppet state.
- ↑ Joint puppet state of Germany and Italy.
- ↑ Hungary became a German puppet state in 1944 after a pro axis coup (Operation Panzerfaust).
- ↑ Joined the allies due to the allied invasion that month. A few months earlier Mussolini was deposed from power. Italy signed peace with the allies and formed in allied government (and going under allied occupation).
- ↑ As a protectorate.
- ↑ Joint puppet state of Germany and Italy.
- ↑ Hungary became a German puppet state in 1944 after a pro axis coup (Operation Panzerfaust).
- ↑ Joined the allies due to the Soviet operation in august. With Ion Antonescu (the leader of Romania) being arrested and Romania forming an allied government (and going under Soviet occupation).
- ↑ Joined the allies due to the soviet invasion in September. With a coup by the Bulgarian resistance and Bulgaria forming an allied government (and going under Soviet occupation).
- ↑ Joined the allies due to a coup against the axis and formed an allied government (and then being invaded by the axis the next month).
- ↑ At the start of the occupation, the Chetniks fought with the Yugoslav Partisans against the Axis Powers. But in late 1941, the Chetniks started to collaborate with the axis against Tito’s partisans. And they continued to do so until the end of the war.
- ↑ Before Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Finland was involved in the Winter War with the Soviets in 1939 and lost some land to them. And Finland was never officially part of the axis powers.
- ↑ Joined the allies due a soviet operation that had been going on for months.
- ↑ See Blue Division
- ↑ After Denmark fell in 1940, the allies occupied Iceland and in 1944 Iceland gained independence from Denmark.
- ↑ Declared independence from the Netherlands on 17 August 1945.
- ↑ Some sources say that Tuva declared war on Germany on June 25th 1941.
- ↑ In 1937, Xinjiang won independence from china after the Soviets invaded.
- ↑ The Soviets supplied rebel forces after xinjiang was annexed back into china.