Declarations of War against the Axis Powers WW2

**spidge** · 12-07-2007, 12:54 AM

A couple of these are "interesting".

Poland 1939, 1 September
Australia 1939, 3 September
France 1939, 3 September
United Kingdom 1939, 3 September

India 1939, 3 September
New Zealand 1939, 3 September
Rhodesia 1939, 3 September
Nepal 1939, 4 September

Newfoundland 1939, 4 September
Tonga 1939, 4 September
South Africa 1939, 6 September
Canada 1939, 10 September

Denmark 1940, 8 April
Norway 1940, 8 April
Greenland 1940, 9 April
Faroe Islands 1940, 12 April

Belgian Congo 1940, 10 May
Belgium 1940, 10 May
Luxembourg 1940, 10 May
Netherlands 1940, 10 May

Free France 1940, 18 June
Greece 1940, 28 October
Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1941, 6 April
Soviet Union 1941, 22 June

Tannu Tuva 1941, 25 June until 1944, 11 October
Panama 1941, 7 December
Philippines 1941, 7 December
Costa Rica 1941, 8 December

Dominican Republic 1941, 8 December
El Salvador 1941, 8 December
Haiti 1941, 8 December
Honduras 1941, 8 December

Nicaragua 1941, 8 December
United States of America 1941, 8 December
Republic of China 1941, 9 December
Cuba 1941, 9 December

Czechoslovakia 1941, 16 December
Peru 1942, 12 February
Mexico 1942, 22 May
Brazil 1942, 22 August
Ethiopia 1942, 14 December
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Iraq 1943, 17 January
Bolivia 1943, 7 April
Iran 1943, 9 September
Italy 1943, 13 October

Colombia 1943, 26 November
Liberia 1944, 27 January
Romania 1944, 25 August
Bulgaria 1944, 8 September

San Marino 1944, 21 September
Albania 1944, 26 October
Hungary 1945, 20 January
Bahawalpur 1945, 2 February

Ecuador 1945, 2 February
Paraguay 1945, 7 February
Uruguay 1945, 15 February
Venezuela 1945, 15 February

Turkey 1945, 23 February
Lebanon 1945, 27 February
Saudi Arabia 1945, 1 March
Finland 1945, 3 March

Chile 1945, 11 April
Argentina 1945, 27 March
Mongolia 1945, 9 August

**Kyt** · 12-07-2007, 05:25 AM

Interesting how some of the colonies are shown as having declared war seperately!

And the late comers who had to declare war to be accepted into the United Nations in the closing days.

morse1001 · 12-07-2007, 05:45 AM

You forgot Berwick on Tweed, who until recently was still offically at war as they had not been included in the various peace treaties, since they have a very ambigious place in Britian.

Also, War was declared by Scotland from the Mercet Cross in Edinburgh in the time old tradition

**Kyt** · 12-07-2007, 05:48 AM

What was the time old tradition - was it an announcement or something more elaborate involving pipes and alcohol?

morse1001 · 12-07-2007, 05:52 AM

War had to be formally declared by the Town crier reading out the declaration for the population of Edinburgh.

The alcohol came later. There famous story of the Pipe major of the Honk Kong Volunteers, who turned up at the Scots companys position with his rifle on his back, his pipes under his arm and a crate of whisky. The latter was as he said "Only for medicainal purposes!"