World War II (Axis vs Allies R-word Map Game)

Second World War

clockwise starting upper right: British tanks retreating at the Second Battle of El Alamein, Indian troops at the Third Battle of Hamburg, a British ship sinking in the Kategatt, Soviet bombers during the Battle of Britain, a Soviet survivor of the raising the flag at Lyon, a Nazi parade in Paris after the Fall of France

Beginning:

1939 (German-Soviet invasion of Poland)

End:

1942 (signing of the Geneva Accords}

Place:

Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, the Pacific

Outcome:

Allied partial surrender, heavy territorial losses for France and Spain, reparations paid by Britain and France to Germany and the Soviet Union, India collapses into civil war

Combatants

The Axis
Germany
Soviet Union
Spain
Italy
Czechoslovakia