The Grand Alliance between the Big Three – the British Empire, the Soviet Union and the United States – emerged through total war, and each power had its own specific aims and concerns. This final ...

reached a kind of culmination in World War II. With its convoy battles and aircraft-carrier duels, it proved the ultimate arbiter of strength in the clash between the Grand Alliance and the Axis ...

World War II began on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland and came to a formal end on September 2, 1945, with the Grand Alliance (Great Britain, USA and USSR) emerging victorious.

The alliance between the USA and the USSR was purely ... USA and the USSR started to re-emerge even before the end of the war. There was a fear that Stalin would treat the people of Eastern ...