_ is the country that was sort of on the same side as Germany at the beginning of the war, but then became an ally of Great Britain and the U. S.

the soviet union

Explanation:

the influence of daoism, buddhism, and legalism on chinese culture. unlike confucianism, daoism looked to nature rather than human beings as the source of morality. according to laozi, human society has to conform to the dao (the way), or the essential unifying element of all that is. some interpret dao as nature.