During the war Germany, Italy and Japan were known as the Axis Powers and Britain, France and America were called the Allies.

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By the end of 1942 America's output of war materiel already exceeded the combined production of the three Axis powers, Germany, Italy and Japan.

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Even neutral countries, however, participated quietly on one side or the other, Spain and Switzerland closer to the Axis Powers, and the others helping the Allies.

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In 1942, in Washington, 26 countries signed the "Declaration of the United Nations, " affirming opposition to Axis powers and confirming that no co-signatory would make a separate peace.

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