WW2 Map by Daniel Rufus

Japan

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Axis power during WW2

Germany

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Axis during WW2

Italy

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Axis during WW2

USA

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Allies during WW2

France

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Allies during WW2

Great Britain

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Poland

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Spain

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Switzerland

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Austria

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Axis during WW2

Denmark

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Hungary

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Axis during WW2

Russia

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Allies during WW2

763 25 Újezd-Újezd u Valašských Klobouk, Czechia

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Axis during WW2

Egypt

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Vietnam

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Deutschland

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Canada

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Allies during WW2

China

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Philippines

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Australia

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Allies during WW2

Indonesia

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China

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Allies during WW2

Willow Run Airport, Willow Run Airport, Superior Township, MI

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B-24 Bombers Planes

Arkansas

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Manganese Ore

Portland, Oregon

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Steel

Houston, TX

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Rubber

North Carolina

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cotton/wool

Arizona

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Ship parts

Jacksonville, FL

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Ships

Wisconsin

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Ammo

Los Angeles, CA

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Aircrafts

Colorado

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Crops

Washington D.C., DC

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boats

UK

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The Battle of Britain was a major air campaign fought largely over southern England in the summer and autumn of 1940. After the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk and the Fall of France, Germany planned to gain air superiority in preparation for an invasion of Great Britain. The Germans suffered from supply problems and a lack of aircraft reserves throughout the battle, largely as a result of underachievement in aircraft production.

Dunkirk, France

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From May 26 to June 4, over 338,000 British and French troops were safely evacuated from Dunkirk. Critical to this process was the British Royal Air Force, which intercepted German bombers above the beach. Together with the civilians who aided the Royal Navy, they saved countless lives.

Normandy, France

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The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history. The operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. The beaches were given the code names UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO, and SWORD.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

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The siege of Leningrad was a military blockade undertaken by the Axis Powers against the city of Leningrad in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II from 1941 to 1944. Leningrad, the country's second largest city, was besieged by Germany and Finland for 872 days, but never captured. The siege was the most destructive in history and possibly the most deadly, causing an estimated 1.5 million deaths.

Stalingrad, Russia

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Soviet forces launched a counteroffensive against the Germans arrayed at Stalingrad in mid-November 1942. They quickly encircled an entire German army, more than 220,000 soldiers. In February 1943, after months of fierce fighting and heavy casualties, the surviving German forces—only about 91,000 soldiers—surrendered.

Holland

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Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a 64 mile salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the Lower Rhine River, creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany. This was to be achieved by two sub-operations: seizing nine bridges with combined American and British airborne forces followed by British land forces swiftly following over the bridges.

Kursk, Russia

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The Red Army defenses were immense as it had months to prepare them. German infantry and armor continued to bludgeon their way towards the city of Kursk but forward progress was slow. The German northern wing slowed to a standstill, while the southern wing continued to make progress.

Tunisia

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The Tunisian campaign was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied forces from 17 November 1942 to 13 May 1943. The Allies consisted of British Imperial Forces, including a Greek contingent, with American and French corps. Despite initial successes by the German and Italian forces brought from the mainland and which had withdrawn into and occupied Tunisia after their defeat in the Western Desert and the success of Operation Torch, massive supply interdiction efforts and Allied assaults from east and west led to the decisive defeat of the Axis.

Luxembourg, Belgium

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The Battle of the Bulge started on December 16, 1944, when German forces launched a surprise attack on Allied forces in the forested Ardennes region in Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. The battle lasted until January 16, 1945, after the Allied counteroffensive forced German troops to withdraw.

El Alamein, Egypt

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The British had built a defensive line at El-Alamein because the Qattara Depression to the south was impassable to mechanized forces. A narrow choke point prevented the German panzers from operating on their preferred southern flank with open terrain. It ended the long fight for the Western Desert, and was the only great land battle won by the British and Commonwealth forces without direct American participation.

Sicily, Italy

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On 3 September 1943, the Eighth Army crossed the Strait of Messina and invaded the 'toe' of Italy. The Germans retreated slowly using demolitions, mines and booby-traps to delay the British.Although the Allies had decided upon an invasion of Italy from North Africa, it wasn't possible to do that directly. There wasn't enough shipping or enough aircraft to cover an assault.

Berlin, Germany

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Battle of Berlin, one of the final battles of World War II. It took place from April 20 to May 2, 1945, and it ended with the fall of Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich, to the Soviet Red Army, which took revenge for the suffering of the Soviet people since 1941.

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

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The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing was the mass murder of Chinese civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing.

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. At the time, the U.S. was a neutral country in World War II. The air raid on Pearl Harbor, which was launched from aircraft carriers, resulted in the U.S. entering the war on the side of the Allies on the day following the attack.

Papua New Guinea

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The battle ended the proposed Japanese sea-borne invasion of Port Moresby. When they attacked the American fleet at Midway the next month, the weakened Japanese were met by a stronger Allied fleet than they had expected, and were defeated. This was the end of Japanese naval power in the Pacific.

Okinawa, Japan

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The Battle of Okinawa, which began 75 years ago, was the last major battle of World War II — and the bloodiest of the Pacific campaign. At dawn on Easter, April 1, 1945, a fleet of 1,300 U.S. ships and 50 British ships closed in for the invasion of the island, which is part of Japan's southernmost prefecture. On June 22, 1945, the American flag rose into the quiet blue sky above Tenth Army's headquarters as a band played the “Star Spangled Banner,” a somber observation of US victory on Okinawa.

Luzon, Philippines

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By the summer of 1945, the Americans had thus destroyed nine of Japan's best divisions and made another six combat ineffective on Luzon. Losses stemming from the battle so drastically reduced Japanese air power that their use of kamikaze operations was necessary throughout the rest of the war. The battle resulted in a U.S. and Filipino victory.

Midway Atoll, United States Minor Outlying Islands

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The Battle of Midway occurred when the U.S. Navy intercepted a Japanese invasion fleet heading for Midway Island, achieving an overwhelming victory and resulting in the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

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The victory was of critical importance, the moment when the Allies put the Japanese on the defensive for the first time. It was also hard-won, involving intense combat in the skies above and the waters surrounding Guadalcanal, as well as on its muddy shores. Japan lost at Guadalcanal during World War II due to a combination of strategic errors, logistical challenges, and the effective resistance by Allied forces, marking a turning point in the Pacific theater.

Iwo Jima, Iōjima, Ogasawara, Tokyo, Japan

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It had been one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history. After the battle, Iwo Jima served as an emergency landing site for more than 2,200 B-29 bombers, saving the lives of 24,000 U.S. airmen. Securing Iwo Jima prepared the way for the last and largest battle in the Pacific: the invasion of Okinawa.

Philippines

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The Battle of the Philippine Sea was a major naval battle of World War II on 19–20 June 1944 that eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy's ability to conduct large-scale carrier actions. It took place during the United States' amphibious reconquest of the Mariana Islands during the Pacific War. The battle was the last of five major "carrier-versus-carrier" engagements between American and Japanese naval forces, and pitted elements of the United States Navy's Fifth Fleet against ships and aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Mobile Fleet and nearby island garrisons. This was the largest carrier-to-carrier battle in history, involving 24 aircraft carriers, deploying roughly 1,350 carrier-based aircraft.

Tokyo, Japan

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The United States wanted to cause significant damage to Japanese civilians to diminish the morale of Japan.

Hiroshima, Japan

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To force a quick surrender from the Japanese the US to reduce the number of American lives lost

Nagasaki, Japan

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It looked increasingly likely that the United States would have to commit itself to a land invasion, which could have claimed many American lives. Instead, the atomic bomb served as a tool to bring the war in the Pacific to a close sooner.

India

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Allies during WW2

Slovakia

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Axis during WW2

Ukraine

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Part of USSR

Belarus

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Part of USSR

Uzbekistan

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Part of USSR

Armenia

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Part of USSR

Azerbaijan

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Part of USSR

Kyrgyzstan

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Part of USSR

Kazakhstan

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Part of USSR

Turkmenistan

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Tajikistan

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Part of USSR

Latvia

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Part of USSR

Lithuania

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Part of USSR

Estonia

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Part of USSR

Moscow, Russia

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Part of USSR

Bay of Pigs, Cuba

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4/17/61

Cuba

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10/27/61

U-2 spy plane shot down