File:World War II alliances animated map.gif

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Summary

Description

English: Animation of alliances during the Second World War, every three months from September 1939 to September 1945.

neutral

Japanese Empire and puppet states

USSR and satellites

Western Allies

Dominions of Western Allies

colonies and occupied territory of Western Allies

Eastern Allies

Axis Powers

colonies and occupied territory of Axis

Vichy France and colonies (officially neutral but a client state of Axis Germany)

Source

Based on Joaopais's GNU image Image:WWII.png (which is derived from Vardion's Image:BlankMap-World.png)

Author

Vardion, Joaopais, User:Roke~commonswiki, + Various

Other versions

File:WWII.gif
other coloration

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	22:14, 7 April 2010	1,357 × 628 (104 KB)	Hohum	Reverted to version as of 20:16, 25 November 2009 - problem is the wiki - not the image
	22:13, 7 April 2010	1,357 × 628 (580 KB)	Hohum	Reverted to version as of 17:47, 8 May 2009 - attempt to fix thumbnail
	20:16, 25 November 2009	1,357 × 628 (104 KB)	Bruce89	Optimised, some of it could be trimmed further
	17:47, 8 May 2009	1,357 × 628 (580 KB)	Rülpsmann	Reverted to version as of 08:29, 4 December 2006
	17:37, 8 May 2009	1,357 × 628 (580 KB)	Rülpsmann	less confusing, easier to understand if you think
	21:28, 23 September 2007	1,357 × 725 (266 KB)	Parhamr	this visual timeline communicates not only the dates but has some "visual context" of the time passed
	07:54, 30 December 2006	1,357 × 628 (406 KB)	Nxx~commonswiki	Reverted to earlier revision
	08:29, 4 December 2006	1,357 × 628 (580 KB)	Roke~commonswiki	use orange/green colours of original map
	04:36, 19 May 2006	1,357 × 628 (406 KB)	Roke~commonswiki	try version with sep 45 map, may not work as had problems
	20:04, 18 May 2006	1,357 × 628 (386 KB)	Roke~commonswiki	minor fix of some white lines in one frame