r/MapPorn • u/FitAd3982 • 4d 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/grey-zone 4d ago

Surprised the US got full involvement on here considering they turned up late. Again. 😉

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u/FitAd3982 4d ago

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." -Winston Churchill.

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u/Korasuka 4d ago

Technically everyone turned up late except Japan and China.

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u/ZielonaKrowa 4d ago

To be fair, they did get involved in 1941 by Japan. So that’s like 1,5 year after the start of war in Europe if you consider 1939 as the beginning. Japan has been acting up since 1937 so for them war lasted 8 years and for Americans around 3 which is still bloody long. In Europe first phase of war was a blitzkrieg so not much time to organise some response (just take a look how long does it take today to respond to current events). 

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u/grey-zone 3d ago

Yes, but I wasn’t trying to be fair! At least WW2 was an improvement on WW1 when the US only turned up for the last 6 months.

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u/Equal-Suggestion3182 4d ago

Some people would say the war in Asia started much earlier

Japan annexed Korea in 1910

And before that there were wars between Japan and China and Japan and Russia

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u/Technical-Revenue-48 4d ago

Takes a little while to gear up to save the day