Allied leaders of World War II

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The final leaders of the Allies at the Potsdam Conference in 1945: Clement Attlee, Harry S. Truman, and Joseph Stalin.
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US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the Casablanca Conference, January 1943.
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Chiang Kai-shek, Roosevelt, and Churchill at the Cairo Conference, 25 November 1943.

The Allied leaders of World War II listed below comprise the important political and military figures who fought for or supported the Allies during World War II. Engaged in total war, they had to adapt to new types of modern warfare, on the military, psychological and economic fronts.

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Free Albania

Kingdom of Belgium

Hubert Pierlot, the prime minister of Belgium between 1939 and 1945, and leader of the Belgian government in exile Hubert Pierlot 1947.jpg
Hubert Pierlot, the prime minister of Belgium between 1939 and 1945, and leader of the Belgian government in exile

Brazil (1942–1945)

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Getúlio Vargas

British Empire and Commonwealth

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King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth with Eleanor Roosevelt in London.

Australia

Three of Australia's World War II prime ministers - Forde, Curtin and Menzies - plus World War I prime minister Billy Hughes Four prime ministers.jpg
Three of Australia's World War II prime ministers – Forde, Curtin and Menzies – plus World War I prime minister Billy Hughes

Canada

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King at the Banff Springs Hotel just prior to the outbreak of war in Europe, 27 May 1939 GeorgeVIBanffSprings.jpg
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King at the Banff Springs Hotel just prior to the outbreak of war in Europe, 27 May 1939

New Zealand

British Raj India

Union of South Africa

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Neville Chamberlain
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Winston Churchill
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Clement Attlee

Malayan Union British Malaya

Newfoundland

  • Sir Humphrey Walwyn was governor of Newfoundland and chairman of the Commission of Government from 1936 to 1946. A former Royal Navy Admiral, during World War II he was active in encouraging Newfoundlanders to join the war effort.

British Mandate for Palestine

Southern Rhodesia

Republic of China

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Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell in Burma in 1942. Chiang Kai Shek and wife with Lieutenant General Stilwell.jpg
Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell in Burma in 1942.

Republic of Cuba

Free Czechoslovak Republic

Kingdom of Denmark

Thorvald Stauning, Prime minister of Denmark 1924-1942. Stauning i1920-erne.jpg
Thorvald Stauning, Prime minister of Denmark 1924–1942.

Kingdom of Egypt

Ethiopian Empire

Haile Selassie with Orde Wingate (right) Haile Selassie, Emperor of Abyssinia, with Brigadier Daniel Arthur Sandford (left) and Colonel Wingate (right) in Dambacha Fort, after it had been captured, 15 April 1941. E2462.jpg
Haile Selassie with Orde Wingate (right)

French Republic

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Albert Lebrun

Free French Forces (and later Fighting France and Provisional government of the French Republic)

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Charles de Gaulle

Kingdom of Greece (1940–1945)

Imperial State of Iran (after Anglo-Soviet Invasion)

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Mohammad Reza Shah

Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea

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Kim Koo

Republic of Liberia

Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

Mexico (1942–1945)

Mongolian People's Republic

Kingdom of the Netherlands (1940–1945)

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands gives a radio speech, 1940 Koningin Wilhelmina Radio Oranje II.jpg
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands gives a radio speech, 1940

Kingdom of Norway

Second Polish Republic

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Władysław Sikorski
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Władysław Anders

Polish Government in Exile and Secret State

Soviet Union (1941–1945)

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Joseph Stalin
Marshal Zhukov reading the German capitulation. Seated on his right is Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder. Zhukov reads capitulation act.jpg
Marshal Zhukov reading the German capitulation. Seated on his right is Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder.

United States (1941–1945)

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Harry S. Truman

European and North African Front

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pacific Front

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Douglas MacArthur

Puerto Rico

Left to right: Major General Geiger, Corps Commander; Colonel Silverthorn, Corps Chief of Staff and Brigadier General del Valle, Corps Artillery Commander, examine a plaster relief map of Guam on board the USS Appalachian. Pedro del Valle2.jpg
Left to right: Major General Geiger, Corps Commander; Colonel Silverthorn, Corps Chief of Staff and Brigadier General del Valle, Corps Artillery Commander, examine a plaster relief map of Guam on board the USS Appalachian.

Commonwealth of the Philippines

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Manuel L. Quezon
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Sergio Osmeña

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Vietnam

Viet Minh

Vanguard Youth

Anti-Japanese Catholic forces

Bình Xuyên

See also


Notes

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  2. "Robert Menzies. In office". Australia's prime ministers. National Archives of Australia. Archived from the original on May 1, 2003. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
  3. "Arthur Fadden". Australia's prime ministers. National Archives of Australia. Retrieved 2008-09-25.[ dead link ]
  4. "John Curtin". National Archives of Australia. Archived from the original on 2007-02-05. Retrieved 2007-04-21.
  5. "Francis Forde". Australia's prime ministers. National Archives of Australia. Archived from the original on July 21, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
  6. "Ben Chifley". Australia's prime ministers. National Archives of Australia. Archived from the original on June 18, 2006. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
  7. "machine code facts, information, pictures". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  8. L, Klemen (1999–2000). "General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell". Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941–1942.
  9. Savarkar, V.D.; Bhide, Anant Sadashiv (1941). Veer Savarkar's "Whirl-wind Propaganda.": Statements, Messages & Extracts from the President's Diary of His Propagandistic Tours, Interviews from December 1937 to October 1941. p. 354. Retrieved 2023-09-13. In the new army of some one lakh of recruits some sixty thousand were Hindus. The Sikhs are being recruited with a view to restore their original proportion in the army in the large numbers.
  10. L, Klemen (1999–2000). "Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival". Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941–1942. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24.
  11. Caidin, ibid., dates the departure of the first AVG pilots 10 December 1941.
  12. Albert Lebrun's biography on the French Presidency official website Archived April 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  13. Flores, Santiago A. (1999–2000). "201st Mexican Fighter Squadron". Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941–1942.
  14. L, Klemen (1999–2000). "Vice-Admiral Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich". Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941–1942. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26.
  15. Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (1940). "Education". Puerto Rico: A Guide to the Island of Boriquén. New York: The University Society, Inc. Archived from the original on 2000-07-07.
  16. "RootsWeb: PUERTORICO-L Re: Navy Admirals from Puerto Rico". Archived from the original on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  17. Sontag, Blind Man's Bluff.
  18. "Lieutenant General Pedro A. Del Valle, USMC". History Division. United States Marine Corps. Archived from the original on October 23, 2006. Retrieved October 10, 2006.
  19. "Quezon, Philippine President, Dies;". The New York Times. 2 August 1944. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  20. "Manuel Quezon". Britannica . Retrieved 18 August 2025.

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