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
change1937
changeChina (from July 1937)
1939
changeCzechoslovakia (from March 1939)
Poland (from September 1939)
France (from September 1939)
- FTR (until 1940)
- Free France (from 1940-1944)
- PGFR (from 1944)
- Algeria
- Morocco
- Tunisia
- Syria
- Fr. Somaliland
- Lebanon
- Vietnam
- Fr. Guiana
- Madagascar
- French partisans
- French-occupied Germany and Austria (from June 1945)
British Empire (from September 1939)
- United Kingdom
- India
- New Zealand
- Palestine
- Newfoundland
- Burma
- Malaya
- Guiana
- Belize
- Jamaica
- Br. Somaliland
- Br. Guiana
- Kuwait
- Falklands
- Sudan
- Gibraltar
- Hong Kong
- 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
changeDenmark (9 April 1940)
Norway (from April 1940)
Luxembourg (from May 1940)
Netherlands (from May 1940)
Belgium (from May 1940)
Greece (from October 1940)
1941
changeYugoslavia (from April 1941)
- Yugoslav Partisans
- Provisional Government (from March 1945)
Viet Minh (from May 1941)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (from June 1941)
- Russia
- Ukraine
- Belarus
- Provisional National Government (from 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)
Iran (from September 1941)
Ethiopia (from November 1941)
Panama (from December 1941)
United States (from December 1941)
- Philippines
- 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)
1942
changeMexico (from May 1942)
Brazil (from August 1942)
1943
changeBolivia (from April 1943)
Italy (from September 1943)
Colombia (from November 1943)
1944
changeLiberia (from January 1944)
Romania (from August 1944)
Bulgaria (from September 1944)
Finland (from September 1944)
Albania (from October 1944)
1945
changeEcuador (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
change1937
changeJapan (from July 1937)
- Manchukuo (1931-1945)
- Wang Jingwei regime (1940-1945)
- Philippines (Second Republic) (1942-1945)
- Vietnam (Empire of Vietnam) (1945)
1939
changeGermany (from September 1939-May 1945)
- Slovakia (1939-1945)
- French State (1940-1942/1944)
- Croatia (1941-1945)
- Italian Social Republic (1943-1945)
- Albania (1943-1944)
- Government of National Unity (1944-1945)
1940
changeItaly (from June 1940-September 1943)
- Italian Libya (1934-1943)
- East Africa (1937-1941)
- Albania (1939-1943)
Hungary (from November 1940)
Romania (from November 1940-August 1944)
1941
changeBulgaria (from March 1941-September 1944)
Yugoslavia (25 - 27 March 1941)
Iraq (2 - 31 May 1941)
Finland (from June 1941-September 1944)
Thailand (from December 1941)
Neutral
changeLithuania (annexed by the USSR in 1940)
Latvia (annexed by the USSR in 1940)
Estonia (annexed by the USSR in 1940)
Tuva [source?] (Soviet satellite state, annexed by the USSR in 1944)