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Allies The term "Allies" refers in the context of the Second World War to those nations opposed to The Axis. Canada belonged to the Allies, and more specifically, to the "Western Allies". According to wikipedia.org, the Western Allies were "the democracies and their colonial peoples, within the broader coalition of (the) Allies..." The term is generally understood to refer to the countries of the Commonwealth of Nations (from 1939), exiled forces from Occupied Europe (from 1940), the United States, (from 1941), portions of Italy (from 1943), and other minor nations, but excluding the Soviet Union and China, which were also Allies. From 1942 onwards, military forces of the Western Allies were overseen by the US-British Combined Chiefs of Staff, based in Washington, DC. The term "Western Allies" continued to refer to the American, British, and French forces stationed in West Berlin from 1945 to 1994.
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