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The United Nations
During December 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt devised the name United Nations for the Allies. He referred to the Big Three and China as a trusteeship of the powerful, and then later the Four Policemen.
The Declaration by United Nations on 1 January 1942 was the basis of the modern United Nations, or UN. At the Potsdam Conference of July–August 1945, Roosevelt's successor, Harry S. Truman, proposed that the foreign ministers of China, France, the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and the United States "should draft the peace treaties and boundary settlements of Europe", which led to the creation of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Big Five and soon thereafter the establishment of those states as the permanent members of the UNSC or United Nations Security Counsel.
Allied Leaders
Joseph Starlin |
Franklin Roosevelt |
Winston Churchill |
Chiang Kai-shek |
- Soviet Union - Joseph Stalin
- United States - Franklin Roosevelt
- United Kingdom - Winston Churchill
- Republic of China - Chiang Kai-shek
Major Affiliated State Combatants
- United States - Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
- Great Britain - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister
- Soviet Union - Joseph Stalin, General
- China - Chiang Kai-Shek, General
- France - Charles de Gaulle
Minor Affiliated Combatants
- Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia, Raj (India), Iraq, Iran, Bulgaria, Mongolia, Gomułka Regime, Romania, Tannu Tuva, Italy and Albania
- Military dead - Over 16,000,000
- Civilian dead - Over 45,000,000
- Total dead - Over 61,000,000
Military Casualties by Country 1939-1945 (selected)
- Australia: 23,365 dead; 39,803 wounded
- Belgium: 7,760 dead; 14,500 wounded
- Canada: 37,476 dead; 53,174 wounded
- China: 2,200,000 dead; 1,762,000 wounded
- France: 210,671 dead; 390,000 wounded
- Great Britain: 329,208 dead; 348,403 wounded
- Italy: 77,494 dead; 120,000 wounded
- Poland: 320,000 dead; 530,000 wounded
- Soviet Union: 7,500,000 dead; 5,000,000 wounded
- United States: 405,399 dead; 670,846 wounded
Map of participants in World War II |
- Dark Green - Allies before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, including colonies and occupied countries.
- Light Green - Allied countries that entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- Blue - Axis Powers and their colonies or countries that had to choose a side in order to stay independent.
- Grey- Neutral countries during WWII
Normandy. |
Resources:
- Encyclipedia Britanica articles on WWII
- Wikipedia Allies of World War II
World War II Videos
Profiles on WikiTree: Leaders
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG PM
- Premier Joseph Stalin
- Premier Chiang Kai-shek
Profiles on Wikitree, Military
Profiles on WikiTree, Civilian
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