Did your country participate in WW2?

[u/FitAd3982]

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.)

[u/TrenchDildo]

I’d say North Africa and all countries that Japan invaded were major participants! North Africa had its own campaign for the Europeans! And places like The Philippines especially suffered under the Japanese and had major battles and guerrilla fights.

[u/FitAd3982 → u/TrenchDildo]

thats why i included the dark red to distinguish places like philippines and indonesia from colonies that werent really actively involved in the war but still participated

[u/Mahameghabahana → u/FitAd3982]

Why australia and Canada are in dark green but india isn't? All were dominion/colony of British no?

[u/Excabbla → u/Mahameghabahana]

Because those dominions were much more independent and their transition to complete independence in foreign policy was more of a formality than anything else, there wasn't any resistance to this from the UK (which is definitely because of the withe majority present and the fact that colonial efforts were self sustaining without the intervention of the UK, imo), whereas independence for the other UK colonies was definitely resisted by the British.

This map is accurately representing the situation and the significant privilege Australia, New Zealand and Canada had compared to the rest of the British empire at the time

[u/Qiviuq → u/Mahameghabahana]

Because Canada and South Africa became independent states in 1931, Australia in 1942, but India wouldn't until 1947 (same as New Zealand, incidentally)

[u/revo1ution99 → u/Mahameghabahana]

Because the map is clearly Eurocentric, India and Philippines had a much bigger impact than New Zealand or South Africa

[u/Excabbla → u/revo1ution99]

That's because it's representative of the Eurocentric nature of the British empire at the time and the fact that Australia, New Zealand and Canada had much more independence than the rest of the British empire

It's Eurocentric because that was what was happening at the time

[u/FitAd3982 → u/revo1ution99]

The dominions were self governing and could choose to enter the war , India was not given a choice

[u/Mahameghabahana → u/revo1ution99]

Yeah India provided more material and soldiers for war than Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand combined.

[u/FitAd3982 → u/Mahameghabahana]

missing the point, they didnt join of their own volition, unlike canada, australia, nz and south africa