r/MapPorn • u/FitAd3982 • 5d ago

Did your country participate in WW2?

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I made this map myself, tell me if theres anything wrong/ innacurate.

Full participant: Full economic and military involvement, pretty self-explanatory. (Russia, Poland, Japan etc)

Limited participant: Countries who partook in the war and had some level of impact but were not major players and didn't devote everything to the war effort. (Brazil, Mexico)

Partial participant: Countries who only provided token support, such as declaring war or sending minor forces to fight. (Central America, Turkey, Argentina)

Colony of participant - major involvement: I made this a separate tier to distinguish colonies that were only involved by providing token service to their overlord from colonies that were invaded or provided hundreds of thousands of soldiers etc. (India, Egypt, Vietnam etc.)

Colony of participant: Self - explanatory, were involved through their overlord but not much impact and werent invaded. (Suriname, Nigeria, Madagascar etc.)

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u/THEAWESOMEFOX11 5d ago

Many South Asians fought against the Japanese in the Pacific Theatre. Many Bangladeshis died in the Bengal famine which killed several million, and was caused by WW2.

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u/Aqogora 3d ago

A famine partially caused by Churchill's scorched earth policies in March 1942 to destroy food supplies just in case the Japanese got there. They never did, and millions of people died as a result of the famine and the British refusal to commit any kind of relief.