Alain S Mikhayhu

Western Allies Alain S Mikhayhu

Publisher Marketing: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Western Allies were a political and geographic grouping among the Allied Powers of the Second World War. It generally includes the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth, the United States, France and various other European and Latin American countries, but excludes China, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia due to different economic, geographic and political circumstances, some of which arose after the war. Similarly, Poland and Czechoslovakia are often excluded from the term, because of their post-war forced inclusion in the Eastern Bloc, even though Polish and Czechoslovak armed forces fought alongside Western Allies (Poland fought against Germany before any of the Western Allies joined the war). Most African and Asian allies not part of the British Commonwealth or France are often excluded from the term, though irregular Ethiopian forces fought along the Western Allies. France is also often counted among the Western Allies, because although the Vichy Regime collaborated with the Axis Powers and fought the Allies, the Free French military forces played a major role against the Axis Powers throughout the war.