wartime alliance
Nations fighting together
A wartime alliance is a formal agreement between nations to cooperate militarily against a common enemy during armed conflict.
Such alliances often unite unlikely partners—countries with opposing ideologies or competing interests who set aside differences when facing a shared threat: The wartime alliance between the US and Soviet Union collapsed into Cold War rivalry.
- coalitionTemporary alliance for action
- pactFormal agreement between parties
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- axisRotation reference line
- Big ThreeChief triad of leaders
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- Cold War OriginsIron Curtain, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade, Berlin Airlift
- WWI Alliancemutual defense, Western Front, doughboys, troop deployment, Verdun
- Taisho diplomacyLansing, treaty negotiations
wartime allianceopposing forces
Combatants facing one another
wartime allianceunilateral action
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