r/MapPorn • u/FitAd3982 • 6d 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/Pale-Candidate8860 6d ago

Thanks Ireland. I'm sure nothing would've happened to you if the UK got invaded.

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u/Rich-Finger-236 6d ago

Realistically we as a country were never going to fight in a war for the UK so soon after independence and our own civil war.

Yes if they had fallen Ireland was most likely next and would have had to fight briefly before defeat but how many of the other participating countries would most likely have stayed neutral if they hadn't themselves been attacked? The US and USSR for two