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The Grand Alliance was an alliance made during World War II, which joined together the United States (led by Franklin Roosevelt), the Soviet Union (led by Joseph Stalin) and Great Britain (led by Winston Churchill). Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill are often known as "The Big Three" or the Allies of World War II. ''The Grand Alliance'' is the title of volume three of Churchill's book ''The Second World War'', which formed the basis of his Nobel Prize for Literature. The Grand Alliance is often called the "Strange Alliance" because it united the world's greatest capitalist state, the greatest communist state and the greatest colonial power. It was essentially an alliance of necessity, as all three needed to join together in order to defeat the threat of Nazi Germany. ==Origins== The Grand Alliance to all intents and purposes was an alliance of convenience of the already allied United States and United Kingdom with the Soviet Union. The British had reason to ask for one as Germany, Italy and the Japanese Empire threatened not only the colonies of the British Empire in North Africa and Asia, but also the Home Islands. The USA felt that the Japanese and German expansion should be contained, but ruled out force until the attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. The Soviet Union, after the breaking of the Nazi-Soviet Pact by the instigation of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, greatly despised the unchallenged Japanese expansion in the East, particularly considering their defeat in several previous wars with Japan. They also recognized, as the US and Britain had suggested, the possibility of a Two Front war being of advantage to the Allies. Thus, with two common enemies, the Grand Alliance (or the 'Big Three') was born, albeit onto shaky foundations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grand Alliance (World War II)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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