During the war Germany, Italy and Japan were known as the AxisPowers 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 Axispowers, 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 AxisPowers, and the others helping the Allies.