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Allies of World War II

grouping of the victorious countries of World War II

22 dated entries naming Allies of World War II, drawn from 10 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
  • 1917November 7 – Iran refuses to support the Allied Forces after the October Revolution.source
  • 19412–3 January – World War II – North African Campaign – The Battle of Bardia occurs between Italian and Allied forces, primarily of the Australian Army, leading to the routing of the Italian Army and the fall of Bardia.source
  • 19418 December – El Salvador declared war on the Axis powers in World War II following the Bombing of Pearl Harbor and joined the Allied Powers.source
  • 1941December 11 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") delivers her first propaganda broadcast to Allied troops.source
  • 1942May 22 – Mexico formally declared war on the Axis powers in support of the Allies.source
  • 19422 August – The British form the Palestine Regiment, consisting of one Arab and three Jewish battalions. Initially, the Regiment is principally involved in guard duties in Egypt and North Africa. The British also want it to undermine efforts of Hajj Amin al-Husayni, who is working to obtain Arab support for the Axis powers against the Allies.source
  • 1943January 14–24 – WWII: Casablanca Conference: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; and generals Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle of the French Resistance meet secretly at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next stage of the war.source
  • 1943March 5 – The Gloster Meteor, the first Allied jet fighter, makes its first flight, in England.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
  • 1943October 17 – The Burma Railway is completed between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (modern-day Myanmar) (415 km) 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
  • 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 SS John Harvey, releasing its secret cargo of mustard gas bombs, inflating the number of casualties.source
  • 1944March 15 – WWII: Battle of Monte Cassino: Allied aircraft bomb the monastery, and an assault is staged.source
  • 1944June 6 – WWII: D-Day: Approximately 160,000 Allied troops shipped from England land on the beaches of Normandy in northern France, beginning Operation Overlord and the Invasion of Normandy. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland, in the largest amphibious military operation in history. This operation helps liberate France from Germany, and also weakens the Nazi hold on Europe.source
  • 1944August 23 – King Michael's Coup: Ion Antonescu, Conducator of Romania, and Mihai Antonescu, Foreign Minister of Romania, are arrested and a new military government established. Romania leaves the war against the Soviet Union, joining the Allies. General Constantin Sanatescu is the "armed force" of the coup d'état and will be appointed by King Michael of Romania as prime minister of Romania on September 1.source
  • 1945January 24 – WWII: AP war correspondent Joseph Morton, nine OSS men, and four SOE agents are executed by the Germans at Mauthausen concentration camp under Hitler's Commando Order of 1942, which stipulates the immediate execution of all captured Allied commandos or saboteurs without trial, even those in proper uniforms. Morton is the only Allied correspondent to be executed by the Axis during the war.source
  • 1945May 6 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (the first was on December 11, 1941).source
  • 194515 August – Japan surrenders to the Allies, ending World War II. The day is known as V-P Day (Victory in the Pacific).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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