Allies

The Allies were the victorious countries of World War II, fighting to defeat the Axis. While the Allies were fighting against fascism, some Allied countries, notably the Soviet Union were far from democratic states themselves. France and Great Britain, while embracing values of liberty and democracy in the context of the struggle against fascism, had colonial records which were inconsistent with those values.

The Allied countries were:

Poland: 1939, 1 September, Australia: 1939, 3 September, New Zealand: 1939, 3 September, United Kingdom: 1939, 3 September (included colonies), France: 1939, 3 September, Nepal: 1939, 4 September, South Africa: 1939, 6 September, Canada: 1939, 10 September, Norway: 1940, 9 April, Belgium: 1940, 10 May, Luxembourg: 1940, 10 May, Netherlands: 1940, 10 May, Greece: 1940, 28 October, Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1941, 6 April, Soviet Union: 1941, 22 June, Tannu Tuva: 1941, 25 June, Panama: 1941, 7 December, Costa Rica: 1941, 8 December, Dominican Republic: 1941, 8 December, El Salvador: 1941, 8 December, Haiti: 1941, 8 December, Honduras: 1941, 8 December, Nicaragua: 1941, 8 December, United States of America: 1941, 8 December, Peoples Republic of China: 1941, 9 December, Guatemala: 1941, 9 December, Cuba: 1941, 9 December, Czechoslovakia(Government-in-Exile) : 1941, 16 December