The History Book Club discussion

This is a thread that focuses on the history and discussion of the Allied Commanders in World War II - {aside from FDR (thread resides in the Presidential Series folder, Churchill and Stalin (who both have their own separate threads] We are primarily focusing on the generals, admirals, etc. in this thread.


Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin
(From left) Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin posing with Allied officers at the Yalta Conference, 1945.
ITAR—TASS/Sovfoto

In World War II the chief Allied powers were Great Britain, France (except during the German occupation, 1940–44), the Soviet Union (after its entry in June 1941), the United States (after its entry on December 8, 1941), and China.

More generally, the Allies included all the wartime members of the United Nations, the signatories to the Declaration of the United Nations.

The original signers of January 1, 1942, were Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Yugoslavia.

Subsequent wartime signers were (in chronological order) Mexico, the Philippines, Ethiopia, Iraq, Brazil, Bolivia, Iran, Colombia, Liberia, France, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Venezuela, Uruguay, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon.