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.

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.

The major Allied Powers were Britain, France, Russia, and the United States. The Allies formed mostly as a defense against the attacks of the Axis Powers. The original members of the Allies included Great Britain, France and Poland. When Germany invaded Poland, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany.

In fact, many nations were touched by the conflict, but the main combatants can be grouped into two opposing factions– Germany, Japan, and Italy where the Axis powers. France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union were the Allied powers.

The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis, was a military coalition that fought in World War II against the Allies. Benito Mussolini declared on 1 November 1936 that all other European countries would from then on rotate on the Rome–Berlin axis, thus creating the term “Axis”.

That alliance became known as the Rome-Berlin Axis, named after Mussolini’s speech. The two countries grew closer, and in May 1939, just a few months before Germany invaded Poland, they formalized their alliance with the Pact of Steel, a military and defensive agreement.

The three principal partners in the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan. These three countries recognized German domination over most of continental Europe; Italian domination over the Mediterranean Sea; and Japanese domination over East Asia and the Pacific.

The Berizzis were just a few of at least 600,000 Italians and Italian Americans—many of them naturalized citizens—swept up in a wave of racism and persecution during World War II. Hundreds of Italian “enemy aliens” were sent to internment camps like those Japanese Americans were forced into during the war.

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Spain had up to one million people detained in around 300 concentration camps set up by the forces of late dictator Gen. Francisco Franco who led a military uprising that in 1939 overthrew a democratically-backed Republican government, an investigative journalist told EFE in an interview published Saturday.

During World War II, the Spanish State under Francisco Franco espoused neutrality as its official wartime policy. The meeting went nowhere, but Franco did help the Axis — whose members Italy and Germany had supported him during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) — in various ways. …

The Spanish Civil War proved to be a breeding ground for mass atrocities, carried out by belligerents eager to eradicate their ideological opponents. About 500,000 people lost their lives in the conflict. Of these, about 200,000 died as the result of systematic killings, mob violence, torture, or other brutalities.

On February 15, 1898, an explosion of unknown origin sank the battleship U.S.S. Maine in the Havana, Cuba harbor, killing 266 of the 354 crew members. Ostensibly on a friendly visit, the Maine had been sent to Cuba to protect the interests of Americans there after riots broke out in Havana in January.