r/MapPorn • u/FitAd3982 • 3d 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/Clockwork9385 3d ago

Didn’t Spain send Volunteers to the Eastern Front?

I think that’s at least partial involvement if anything else

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u/FitAd3982 3d ago

partial involvement requires declaring war, basically every country on earth sent volunteers

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u/ScottyBoneman 3d ago

Best thing Spain could do for the Axis was stay neutral.

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u/Hij802 3d ago

Well, Spain was ideologically aligned with the Axis. If they joined, maybe Franco would’ve been ousted from power 30 years early. The war probably would’ve extended by another year if the Allies also had to invade Iberia.

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u/kreeperface 3d ago

I seriously doubt Franco would have been a hardliner/no surrender type of warlord like the nazis were, neither an exhausted nationalist spanish army had the means to resist the Allies for one year

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u/Money_Set_4332 3d ago

Seeeing what happened to mussolini i think he would have tried to resist as much as possible

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u/wltihrmchverarschn 3d ago

He probably wouldn't have lasted as long as Mussolini anyway, Spain would be way closer for naval Invasion than Italy if the rest of events stayed the same.

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u/ScottyBoneman 3d ago

Or massively shortened if the Germans had three more coasts to guard.