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Allies of World War II

grouping of the victorious countries of World War II

13 dated entries naming Allies of World War II, drawn from 9 separate years between 1917 CE and 1955 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1917November 7 – Iran (which has provided weapons for Russia) refuses to support the Allied Forces after the October Revolution.source
  • 1941Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") delivers her first propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.source
  • 1943December 2 – WWII: Bari chemical warfare disaster: A surprise Luftwaffe air raid on Bari, Italy sinks 28 Allied ships in the harbor, including the American Liberty ship , releasing its secret cargo of mustard gas bombs, inflating the number of casualties.source
  • 1943July 10 – (0245 GMT (4:45 a.m. local time)) – WWII: Allied invasion of Sicily – The Allied invasion of Axis-controlled Europe begins, with landings on the island of Sicily off mainland Italy by the Seventh United States Army and the British Eighth Army, including the 1st Canadian Infantry Division.source
  • 1943March 5 – The Gloster Meteor, the first Allied jet fighter, makes its first flight, in England.source
  • 1943The Burma Railway is completed between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (modern-day Myanmar) (415 km mi) by the Empire of Japan, to support its forces in the Burma campaign, using the forced labour of Asian civilians and Allied Prisoners of war.source
  • 1944March 15 – WWII: Battle of Monte Cassino: Allied aircraft bomb the monastery, and an assault is staged.source
  • 1944Battle of Monte Cassino: The Germans evacuate Monte Cassino and Allied forces, led by Władysław Anders from Polish II Corps, take the stronghold after a struggle that has claimed 20,000 lives.source
  • 1945May 6 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (the first was on December 11, 1941).source
  • 1946January 7 – The Allies of World War II recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four occupation zones.source
  • 1949September 6 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to Germany.source
  • 1952April 28 – The Treaty of San Francisco goes into effect, formally ending the war between Japan and the Allies, and simultaneously ending the occupation of the four main Japanese islands by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.source
  • 1955October 26 – After the last Allied troops have left Austria, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, the country declares its permanent neutrality.source

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