WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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Axis
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Allies
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Harry S. Truman
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Triple Entente was the name given to the alliance (partnership) between Russia, France, and Britain, during World War I. These countries were also known as the Allies, and were fighting against Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
Detailed explanation-2: -Triple Entente, association between Great Britain, France, and Russia, the nucleus of the Allied Powers in World War I.
Detailed explanation-3: -The creation of a unified Germany in 1871 had disturbed the old ‘balance of power’ in Europe. Fear of Germany encouraged France and Russia to form an alliance in 1894.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Pont Alexandre III in Paris and the Trinity Bridge in St Petersburg remain two symbols of the Franco-Russian Alliance.
Detailed explanation-5: -The major Allied powers in World War I were Great Britain (and the British Empire), France, and the Russian Empire, formally linked by the Treaty of London of September 5, 1914. Other countries that had been, or came to be, allied by treaty to one or more…