Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Nokuparara kweFrance muna 1940, mukati meHondo Yenyika II, French Protectorate yeMorocco yakava pasi pesimba rehurumende yeVichy, iyo yakaisa vagari vayo vakuru. Sultan Muhammad V akanga asingadi vatenzi vake vatsva. Kunyange zvazvo akanga asina simba, sultan akaramba zvaidiwa neVichy paaikwanisa, kusanganisira zvainzi akaramba zvaidiwa neVichy muna 1941 kuti apfuure nemutemo unorwisa vaJudha, achiti zvaipesana nemutemo weMoroccan. Muhammad V akagamuchira November 1942
Mauto eAllies akaburuka muMorocco, achiramba mirayiridzo yaVichy yokuendesa dare rake kunyika. Muhammad V akagamuchira vatungamiri veAllied Winston Churchill naFranklin Delano Roosevelt paCasablanca Conference muna Ndira 1943, panguva iyo Churchill akakwezva Roosevelt parwendo rwekuenda kuMarrakech. Kuvapo kweAllied muMorocco kwakakurudzira mafambiro emarudzi, ayo akaunzwa pasi pebato idzva remambure, "Hizb al-Istiqlāl" (Independence Party) muna 1943. Zvisinei, chikumbiro cheIstiqlal kumasimba eSangano achikumbira kuzvipira kuzvimiririra kwehondo yapashure pehondo yeMorocco chakashandiswa nezviremera zveFree French kudzvinyirira Istiqlal muna 1944. VaFrench vakatsvaira ndokusunga vatungamiriri varo pamhosva dzisina kururama dzokubetsera nhamburiko yehondo yeGermany, vachigumisira nokuratidzira mumaguta akasiana-siana uko kwakadzvinyirirwa nechisimba.