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Allies of World War II

#Politics of World War II #20thcentury military alliances

1 ________ provided the largest proportion of Chinese arms imports and technical expertise.

2 The ________ started the war in Europe, when Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939.

3 Which of the following titles did Allies of World War II have?

4 The Polish People's Army took part in the ________, the closing battle of the European theater of war.

5 Mexico, in March 1945 sent an air force unit, Escuadrón 201 to join the U.S. Far East Air Force, during the ________.

6 The members of the Pan American Union, who were all neutral between 1939 and 1941, formed a mutual defense pact at a conference of foreign ministers at ________, on 21 July 1940 – 30 July 1940.

7 However, following the nominal unification of China in 1928, Chiang Kai-shek purged leftists from his party and fought against the ________, former warlords, and other militarist factions.

8 The South African Prime Minister, Barry Hertzog, refused to declare war, leading to the collapse of his coalition government on 6 September; the new Prime Minister, ________, declared war that same day.

9 Four members later joined the Allies, as ________: the Kingdom of Norway, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

10 Following the ________ in 1931, the Dominions of the British Commonwealth had independence in foreign policy.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Allied Bombing of Bucharest in World War II damaged the University of Bucharest and uprooted trees at the Botanical Garden of Bucharest?
  • the Allied force which landed on Morotai in September 1944 was over a hundred times larger than the Japanese force defending the island?
  • the 1944 German film Große Freiheit Nr. 7 was banned in Nazi Germany and only permitted by the Allies in late 1945?
  • during the later stages of World War II, the Bordeaux wine estate Château Lascombes served as a headquarters for the Allied forces?
  • during the invasion of Normandy, more than a million Rommelspargel poles (pictured) placed to injure Allied paratroopers and glider infantry proved ineffective?
  • the Liberator that crashed in 1943 in New Zealand during World War II was transferring Japanese men, women and children from the consular corps to exchange for Allied POWs?
  • the Battle of San Marino was fought between Allied and German forces inside a neutral country?
  • two members of No. 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, were among the 50 Allied POWs murdered by the Gestapo, following The Great Escape in 1944?
  • the capture of the strategic Klisura Pass by the Greek army, in January 1941, was considered a major success by the Allied forces?
  • the Reggiane Re.2007 was a proposed Italian fighter aircraft to be used in the final phase of World War II as a defense against the increasing Allied bombing raids?
  • the Romanian–American Refinery was one of several refineries bombarded by the allied powers in Operation Tidal Wave during World War II?
  • despite losing Belgium to the Allies, Nazi Germany declared Flanders a reichsgau in 1944?
  • at great risk, Squadron Leader Phil Lamason of the RNZAF negotiated the transfer of 166 allied airmen from Buchenwald concentration camp, a week before their scheduled execution?
  • M. E. Clifton James posed as Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as part of an Allied deception plan called Operation Copperhead in 1944, and then went on to play himself in a 1958 biopic called I Was Monty's Double?
  • Leon Feiner, a leader of the Bund and of Żegota, wrote many communiques to the Western Allies describing the Holocaust in Poland?
  • Italian aerodynamicist Antonio Ferri took to the hills in 1943 with a trunk load of scientific documents to turn over to the Allies?
  • Allied aircraft, including the one that located the Bismarck, were permitted to fly across neutral Irish territory using the Donegal Corridor?
  • Operation Cockade, a series of Allied deceptive operations during World War II, was so unsuccessful that it was later described as being “at best a piece of harmless play acting”?
  • U-106 was one of Germany's most successful submarines, sinking twenty-two Allied ships in World War II?
  • all Allied pilots shot down over Poland in World War II are laid to rest at the Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków?
  • a small Allied rearguard at the strategic pass of Thermopylae held off German forces invading Greece in 1941 at the most recent Battle of Thermopylae?
  • Flight of the Red Tail chronicles the second restoration of a P-51 Mustang bomber escort for the Allied Forces in the European Theatre of World War II?
  • U-515 sank seven Allied ships in a 12-hour period during her third patrol of the war?
  • 66 years ago today, 168 captured Allied airmen—accused by the Gestapo of being "Terrorflieger" (terror fliers)—arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp and subsequently formed the KLB Club?
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