#coalition
- Alliance — A pact, treaty, or formal union concluded between two or more states, organizations, political parties, or individuals for mutual support, collective defense, or achieving convergent strategic goals. In international law, it defines rigorous frameworks of cooperation.
- Alloying — The act of allying and its result: 1. (In metallurgy) A technological and chemical process of introducing alloying elements into a molten metal to modify its crystalline structure. 2. (In a social/political sense) The act of formal union, coalition, or strategic association of groups, states, or individuals.
- Ally — 1. A person, group, organization, or state united with another through an official treaty, pact, or agreement for mutual support and collective defense. 2. Pertaining to an alliance, united by common interests, or fighting on the same side in a conflict. As an adjective, it characterizes coordinated military forces.
- Allied — 1. A female person, organization, company, or nation united with another through an official pact, strategic agreement, or formal bond of mutual support. 2. The feminine form of the adjective 'aliat'; participating in an alliance, sharing identical interests, or cooperating in a unified structure.
- Alloying — The act of allying or aligning oneself and its result; the formal process through which states, political parties, organizations, or individuals combine their efforts and resources to achieve a common goal. In metallurgy, the term represents a technical variant sometimes used for the alloying of metals, meaning the introduction of secondary chemical elements into a molten base metal to obtain an alloy with superior physical and mechanical properties.
- Anti-Hitler — Opposing Adolf Hitler, the national-socialist ideology (nazism), or the political regime imposed by him during World War II; a person who fought or expressed opposition against the Hitlerite dictatorship. In a historical sense, it describes the international coalition formed by the Great Powers (the Allies) to defeat Nazi Germany.