The Evolving Nature of the Allied Forces, NATO and the North American Union (NAU)

During the Second World War, the nations who rose up to defend Europe from the Axis Powers were referred to as the United Nations. History, however, remembers them as the Allies, the Allied Powers or the Allied Forces. The Allies were united against the common threats to their sovereignty, but some more out of necessity and selfishness than a willingness to participate in a romantic war of good versus evil or cooperate with certain members of the Allied Forces who would otherwise be enemies. By the war's end a total of 55 nations had banded together militarily and politically in solidarity to oppose Italian and Nazi-Fascism and the expansion of the Japanese Empire. These nations would later evolve into the United Nations as we know it today and also their more directly related and military equivalent, NATO. Their official slogan, “An Attack on One is an Attack on All,” represents the basic concept of collective security that the Allied Forces appeared to employ.[1] Sadly, history has proven that the response to an “Attack on One” is rarely as passionately mustered to defend the borders of a victimized nation as an attack on the Allied home-front (unless the survival of the defending nation directly affects the political and economic interests of the Allies).