Allied powers | allied powers ww1
Alliedpowers,alsocalledAllies,thosecountriesalliedinoppositiontotheCentralPowers[1](Germany[2],Austria-Hungary[3],andTurkey[4])inWorldWarI[5]ortotheAxispowers[6](Germany,Italy[7],andJapan[8])inWorldWarII[9].ThemajorAlliedpowers[10]inWorldWarIwereGreatBritain[11](andtheBritishEmpire[12]),France[13],andtheRussianEmpire[14],formallylinkedbytheTreatyofLondon[15]ofSeptember5,1914.Othercountriesthathadbeen,orcametobe,alliedbytreatytooneormoreofthosepowerswerealsocalledAllies:PortugalandJapanbytrea...
Allied powers, also called Allies, those countries allied in opposition to the Central Powers[1] (Germany[2], Austria-Hungary[3], and Turkey[4]) in World War I[5] or to the Axis powers[6] (Germany, Italy[7], and Japan[8]) in World War II[9].
The major Allied powers[10] in World War I were Great Britain[11] (and the British Empire[12]), France[13], and the Russian Empire[14], formally linked by the Treaty of London[15] of September 5, 1914. Other countries that had been, or came to be, allied by treaty to one or more of those powers were also called Allies: Portugal and Japan by treaty with Britain; Italy by the Treaty of London[16] of April 26, 1915, with all three powers. Other countries—including the United States[17] after its entry on April 6, 1917—that were arrayed against the Central Powers were called “Associated Powers,” not Allied powers; U.S. Pres. Woodrow Wilson[18] emphasized that distinction to preserve America’s fr...