Cards was a really big hit. They liked Fish, Concentration, Crazy Eights, Hearts, and if old enough Canasta, Gin Rummy, solitaire, Slap Jack, War and 21. There were also games in water like Marco Polo, dive bomb and water ballet. Children played for hours because they did not have Video Games or television. They made up their own games too. Adults loved the board games and card games. The women would get together to play cards once a week. Men liked all the ball games, cribbage card came matches and gin rummy too. Men obviously liked to play poker games.
The major participants were Germany, Italy and Japan on one side with British Commonwealth, the Soviet Union and the United States on the other. The Allies include Britain and France from Sept 1939. The invaded states of Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway and Greece joined the Allies. USSR joined the Allies on June 22, 1941. Mexico sent an airforce unit to the Far East. Brazil sent troops to Europe.
The AXIS powers of Germany, Italy (changed sides and split in half 1943) Hungary, Romania Bulgaria, Finland (changed sides 1945) Spain was meant to be neutral but they helped Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and sent troops to fight along side the Germans in Russia.
Portugal was neutral but helped the Allies by letting them use air and naval bases. Ireland were neutral publicly but privately supported the Allies. Sweden and Switzerland were neutral but traded with Germany. All the states of South America helped the allies mostly under American persuasion. In Asia, Thailand supported Japan, everybody else supported the Allies. Some Indian people supported Japan, hoping that they would oust the British from India.
A more complete list
Allies:
United Kingdom
British commonwealth, whose troops came from the modern day countries of
Antigua and Barbuda,
Australia,
Bahamas,
Bangladesh,
Barbados,
Bahrain,
Belize,
Bermuda,
Botswana,
Brunei,
Burma,
Bhutan,
Cameroon,
Canada,
Cyprus,
Dominica,
Egypt,
Ethiopia,
Gambia,
Ghana,
Grenada,
Guyana,
Fiji,
Hong Kong and other Chinese territories,
India,
Israel,
Jamaica,
Jordan,
Kenya,
Kiribati,
Kuwait,
Lesotho,
Libya,
Malawi,
Malaysia,
Maldives,
Malta,
Mauritius,
Namibia,
Nauru,
New Zealand,
Nepal,
Nigeria,
Oman,
Pakistan,
Palestine,
Qatar,
Saint Kitts and Nevis,
Saint Lucia,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
Samoa,
Seychelles,
Sierra Leone,
Singapore,
Solomon Islands,
Somaliland,
South Africa,
Sri Lanka,
Sudan,
Swaziland,
Tanzania,
Tonga,
Tuvalu,
Uganda,
Vanuatu,
Yemen,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe
Philipines
Republic of China
France:
French Empire
Poland
Netherlands:
Dutch Empire
Norway
Denmark
Czechoslovakia
Belguim
Luxembourg
Greece
Yugoslavia
Brazil
Mexico
Soviets:
Russia
Ukraine
Georgia
Estonia
Lithuania
Lativa
Belarus
Moldova
Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Mongolia
People's Republic of China
Axis
Germany
Japan
Italy
Vichy France:
French empire under Vichy control
Austria
Thailand
Finland
Hungary
Bulgaria
Volunteers from many other nations joined both sides, for example volunteers from the Republic of Ireland were the biggest contigent of volunteers from a neutral country to the British military!
The name of the war indicates that most of the world was involved. However, certain countries played a more central role than others. There were basically two factions, the Axis Powers vs. the Allies. These were as follows:
Axis Powers: Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan
Allies: England, France, Russia, the US
AXIS: Italy(later changed sides,) Germany, Japan
ALLIES: America, Russia, England
Over 30 countries participated in WWII, but the main sides were the Allies and the Axis.
The Axis was composed of Germany, Italy, and Japan--along with countries that had been taken over by them, such as Austria.
The Allies--or the most influental three--were the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. Others, such as France, Canada, and China, also helped.
Here are the entire list of battles and operations of World War 2 and it's categorized on what front it was fought on.
African and Middle Eastern Front.
Battles of Fort Capuzzo: June 1940-November 1942
East African Campaign: June 1940-November 1942
Italian conquest of British Somaliland
Battle of Keren
Attack on Mers-el-K
Children played ball games of all types. Britons also played cricket. Girls loved to play jacks, marbles, jump rope, play school and house, and played with dolls. The games the kids loved were neighborhood games like "Red, Light, Green, Light", "Red Rover", "Hide and Seek", "Statutes" and other games. They liked board games like Monopoly, Scrabble, Life, checkers, chess, backgammon, Chinese checkers, and dominoes.
Cards was a really big hit. They liked Fish, Concentration, Crazy Eights, Hearts, and if old enough Canasta, Gin Rummy, solitaire, Slap Jack, War and 21. There were also games in water like Marco Polo, dive bomb and water ballet. Children played for hours because they did not have video games or television. They made up their own games too. Adults loved the board games and card games. The women would get together to play cards once a week. Men liked all the ball games, cribbage card came matches and gin rummy too. Men obviously liked to play poker games.
Here are the entire list of battles and operations of world war 2 and it's categorized on what front it was fought on.
African and Middle Eastern Front.
Battles of Fort Capuzzo: June 1940-November 1942
East African Campaign: June 1940-November 1942
Italian conquest of British Somaliland
Battle of Keren
Attack on Mers-el-Kébir: 3 July, 1940
Siege of Malta: June 1940-December 1942
Battle of Yugoslavia: April 1941
Battle of Greece: April 1941
Battle of Crete: May 1941
Operation Strangle: March 1943 - June 1944
Battle of Sicily: July-August 1943
Operation Ladbroke
Operation Fustian
Battle of Troina
Allied invasion of Italy: September 1943
Operation Slapstick
Dodecanese Campaign: September-October 1943
Battle of Leros
Battle of Kos
Battle of Naples: September 1943
Volturno Line: October-November 1943
Barbara Line: October-November 1943
Air Raid on Bari: December 1943
Battle of Ortona: December 1943
Bernhardt Line: December 1943-January 1944
Moro River Campaign: December 1943
Battle of Monte Cassino: January-May 1944
Operation Diadem
Battle of Anzio: January-June 1944
Battle of Cisterna
Trasimene Line: June-July 1944
Battle of Ancona: June-July 1944
Gothic Line: August-December 1944
Battle of Gemmano
Battle of Rimini
Battle of San Marino: September 1944
Battle of Garfagnana: December 1944
Battle of Monte Castello: November 1944 - February 1945
Spring 1945 offensive in Italy: April-May 1945
Battle of Bologna:
Battle of the Argenta Gap:
Western Front
Operation Weserübung: April-June 1940
Norwegian Campaign
Battles of Narvik
Battle of the Netherlands: May 1940
Battle of Rotterdam
Battle of Zeeland
Battle of The Afsluitdijk
Battle of the Grebbeberg
Battle for the Hague
Battle of Maastricht
Battle of Belgium: May 1940
Battle of Fort Eben-Emael
Battle of Hannut
Battle of Gembloux
Battle of France: May-June 1940
Battle of Sedan
Battle of Arras
Siege of Calais
Siege of Lille
Operation Paula
Battle of Dunkirk
Battle of Saumur
Battle of Britain: July-October 1940
The Hardest Day
Battle of Britain Day
Battle of Graveney Marsh
The Blitz: September 1940-May 1941
Operation Cerberus: February 1942
Operation Donnerkeil: February 1942
St. Nazaire Raid: March 1942
Dieppe Raid: August 1942
Battle of Berlin (air): November 1943-March 1944
Operation Overlord: June-August 1944
Battle of Normandy
Invasion of Normandy
Battle for Caen
Operation Perch
Battle of Carentan
Battle of Cherbourg
Battle of Villers-Bocage
Battle of Bloody Gulch
Operation Epsom
Operation Windsor
Operation Charnwood
Operation Jupiter
Second Battle of the Odon
Operation Goodwood
Operation Atlantic
Battle of Verrières Ridge
Operation Spring
Operation Cobra
Operation Totalize
Operation Lüttich
Operation Tractable
Battle of Hill 262
Falaise pocket
Battle for Brest: August-September 1944
Operation Dragoon: August-September 1944
Operation Romeo
Battle of Port Cros
Battle of La Ciotat
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine: August-September 1944
Clearing the Channel Coast: September-November 1944
Operation Astonia
Siege of Dunkirk (1944)
Operation Wellhit
Operation Undergo
Operation Market Garden: September 1944
Battle of Arnhem
Lorraine Campaign: September-December 1944
Battle of Metz: September-December 1944
Battle of Nancy: September 1944
Battle of Moerbrugge: September 1944
Battle of Hürtgen Forest: September 1944-February 1945
Battle of Hill 400
Battle of Overloon: October 1944
Battle of Aachen: October 1944
Battle of Crucifix Hill
Battle of the Scheldt: October-November 1944
Operation Queen: November-December 1944
Operation Clipper: November 1944-January 1945
Battle of the Bulge: December 1944-January 1945
Battle of St. Vith
Battle of Kesternich
Battle of Foy
Battle of Lanzerath Ridge
Losheim Gap
Battle of Clervaux
Elsenborn Ridge
Operation Stösser
Siege of Bastogne
Operation Bodenplatte
Operation Nordwind: January 1945
Operation Blackcock: January 1945
Colmar Pocket: January-February 1945
Western Allied invasion of Germany: February-May 1945
Operation Veritable
Operation Grenade
Operation Lumberjack
Operation Plunder
Operation Varsity
Operation Undertone
Operation Amherst
Battle of Kassel
Battle of Heilbronn
Ruhr Pocket
Battle of Groningen: April 1945
The Atlantic
Battle of the Atlantic: 1939-1945
Battle of the River Plate
Altmark Incident
Convoy SC 7
Convoy HX 84
Convoy HX 106
Operation Berlin
Action of 4 April 1941
Action of 9 May 1941
Battle of the Denmark Strait
Battle of the Bismarck
Operation Drumbeat
Battle of Torpedo Alley
Action of 27 March 1942
Battle of the St. Lawrence
Action of 6 June 1942
Convoy PQ 17
Naval Battle of Casablanca
Battle of the Barents Sea
Battle of the North Cape
Operation Stonewall
Operation Teardrop
Action of 13 May 1944
Battle of Ushant
Battle of Pierres Noires
Action of 9 February 1945
Battle of Point Judith
Eastern Front
Invasion of Poland: September-October 1939
Winter War: November 1939-March 1940
Operation Barbarosa: June-December 1941
Battle of Białystok-Minsk: June 1941
Operation Arctic Fox: July-November 1941
Operation Bagration: June-August
Bobruysk Offensive: June 1944
Battle of the Bay of Viipuri: June-July 1944
Belostock Offensive: July 1944
Battle of Berlin: April-May 1945
Battle of Bautzen (1945): April 1945
Battle at Borodino Field: October 1941-January 1942
Operation Braunschweig: July-November 1942
Defense of Brest Fortress: June 1941
Siege of Breslau: February-May 1945
Battle of Brody (1941): June 1941
Battle of Bryansk (1941): October 1941
Battle of Roy: November 1941
Budapest Offensive: October 1944-February 1945
Siege of Budapest: December 1944-February 1945
Operation Büffel: March 1943
Case Blue: June-November 1942
Battle of the Caucasus
Concert (operation)
Continuation War
Courland Pocket
Battle of the Crimea (1941)
Battle of the Crimea (1944)
Battle of Debrecen
Demyansk Pocket
Operation Doppelkopf
Battle of the Dnieper
Battle of Drava
Battle of the Dukla Pass
East Pomeranian Offensive
East Prussian Offensive
Operation Edelweiss
Operation Frühlingserwachen
Gumbinnen Operation
Battle of Halbe
Battle of Hel
Heiligenbeil Pocket
Operation Iskra
Jassy-Kishinev Operation
Kamenets-Podolsky Pocket
Kaunas Offensive
Battle of the Kerch Peninsula
Kerch-Eltigen Operation
First Battle of Kharkov
Second Battle of Kharkov
Third Battle of Kharkov
Fourth Battle of Kharkov
Occupation of Kharkov
Battle of Kiev (1941)
Battle of Kiev (1943)
Battle of Kolberg
Battle of Königsberg
Operation Konrad
Korsun-Cherkassy Pocket
Battle of Krasny Bor
Operation Kremlin
Battle of Kursk
Operation Kutuzov
Battle of Leningrad
Battle of Lenino
Lower Silesian Offensive
Lublin-Brest Offensive
Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive
Lötzen decision
Operation Margarethe
Battle of Memel
Minsk Offensive
Mogilev Offensive
Moonzund Landing Operation
Battle of Moscow
Malaya Zemlya
Operation Mars
Nagykanizsa-Kermend Offensive
Battle of Narva (1944)
Battle for Narva Bridgehead
Battle of Tannenberg Line
Nevsky Pyatachok
Battle of Nikolayevka
Operation Nordlicht
Battle of the Oder-Neisse
Siege of Odessa (1941)
Osovets Offensive
Ostrogozhsk-Rossosh Operation
Operation Panzerfaust
Operation Platinum Fox
Polotsk Offensive
Operation Polyarnaya Zvezda
Battle of Porkuni
Battle of Poznań (1945)
Prague Offensive
Pripyat swamps (punitive operation)
Battle of Prokhorovka
Battle of Radzymin (1944)
Battle of Raseiniai
Operation Renntier
Riga Offensive (1944)
Battle of Rostov
Battles of Rzhev
Operation Saturn
Defense of Schwedt Bridgehead
Sea of Azov coastal advance
Battle of the Seelow Heights
Siege of Sevastopol (1941-1942)
Shyaulyay Offensive
Silesian Offensives
Operation Silver Fox
Battle of Smolensk (1941)
Battle of Smolensk (1943)
Operation Solstice
Battle of Someri
Battle of Stalingrad[3]
Battle of Studzianki
Bombing of Tallinn in World War II
Evacuation of Tallinn (1941)
Tallinn Offensive
Battle of Târgul Frumos
Tatsinskaya Raid
Toropets-Kholm Operation
Battle of Uman
Upper Silesian Offensive
Operation Uranus
Battle for Velikiye Luki (1943)
Vienna Offensive
Vilnius Offensive
Vistula-Oder Offensive
Vitebsk-Orsha Offensive
Battle of Voronezh (1942)
Battle of Voronezh (1943)
Warsaw Uprising
Battle of Westerplatte
Operation Wintergewitter
Battle of Wizna
Operation Wotan
Yelnya Offensive
Zemland Offensive
Operation Valkyrie
The Pacific
Battle for Australia
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of Rabaul
New Guinea campaign
Battle for Kododa
Battle of Isurava
Battle of Brigade Hill
Battle of Biak
Battle of Buna-Gona
Battle of the Bismarck Sea
Bougainville Campaign
Battle of Driniumor River
Finisterre Range campaign
Huon Peninsula campaign
Battle of Lone Tree Hill (1944)
Battle of Milne Bay
Operation Cartwheel
Operation Mo
Operations Reckless and Persecution
Salamaua-Lae campaign
Battle of Wau
Bombing of Wewak
Attack on Broome
Battle of Darwin
Battle of Pearl Harbor: 7 December 1941
Philippines Campaign (1941-42): December 1941-May 1942
Battle of Bataan
Battle of Corregidor
Battle of Hong Kong: December 1941
Dutch East Indies campaign: December 1941-March 1942
Battle of Guam (1941): December 1941
Battle of Wake Island: December 1941
Battle of Midway: June 1942
Guadalcanal Campaign: August 1942-February 1943
Battle of Savo Island: August 1942
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands: October 1942
Battle of Attu: May 1943
Battle of Tarawa: November 1943
Battle of Cape Gloucester: December 1943-April 1944
Battle of Saipan: June-July 1944
Battle of Noemfoor: July-August 1944
Battle of Guam (1944): July-August 1944
Battle of Peleliu: September 15 - November 17 1944
Battle of the Philippine Sea: September-October 1944
Battle of Morotai: September-October 1944
Philippines Campaign (1944-45): October 1944 - September 1945
Battle of Leyte: October-December 1944
Battle of Leyte Gulf: October 1944
Battle off Samar: 25 October 1944
Battle of Luzon: January-August 1945
Battle of Manila (1945): February-March 1945
Battle of Iwo Jima: February-March 1945
Battle of Okinawa: April-June 1945
Chinese Front
Mukden: September 1931
Invasion of Manchuria: September 1931
Jiangqiao Campaign: October 1931
Resistance at Nenjiang Bridge: November 1931
Jinzhou: December 1931
Defense of Harbin: January 1932
Shanghai (1932): January 1932
Pacification of Manchukuo: March 1932
Defense of the Great Wall: January 1933
Battle of Rehe: February 1933
Actions in Inner Mongolia (1933-36)
Suiyuan Campaign: October 1936
Battle of Lugou Bridge (Marco Polo Bridge Incident): July 1937
Battle of Beiping-Tianjin: July 1937
Chahar: August 1937
'Battle of Shanghai: August 1937
Beiping-Hankou: August 1937
Tianjin-Pukou: August 1937
Battle of Taiyuan: September 1937
Battle of Pingxingguan: September 1937
Battle of Xinkou: September 1937
Battle of Nanjing: December 1937
Battle of Xuzhou: December 1937
Battle of Taierzhuang: March 1938
Northern and Eastern Honan 1938: January 1938
Battle of Lanfeng: May 1938
Xiamen: May 1938
'Battle of Wuhan: June 1938
Battle of Wanjialing
Guangdong: October 1938
Hainan Island: February 1939
Battle of Nanchang: March 1939
Battle of Xiushui River: March 1939
Battle of Suixian-Zaoyang: May 1939
Shantou: June 1939
Battle of Changsha (1939): September 1939
Battle of South Guangxi: November 1939
Battle of Kunlun Pass: December 1939
1939-40 Winter Offensive: November 1939
Battle of Wuyuan: March 1940
Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang: May 1940
Hundred Regiments Offensive: August 1940
Vietnam Expedition: September 1940
Central Hupei: November 1940
Battle of South Henan: January 1941
Western Hopei: March 1941
Battle of Shanggao: March 1941
Battle of South Shanxi: May 1941
Battle of Changsha (1941): September 1941
Battle of Changsha (1942): January 1942
Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road: March 1942
Battle of Toungoo
Battle of Yenangyaung
Battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi: April 1942
Battle of West Hubei: May 1943
Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan: October 1943
Battle of Changde: November 1943
Operation Ichi-Go
Operation Kogo Battle of Central Henan: April 1944
Operation Togo 1 Battle of Changsha (1944)
Operation Togo 2 and Operation Togo 3 Battle of Guilin-Liuzhou: August 1944
Battle of West Hunan: April-June 1945
Second Guangxi Campaign: April-July 1945
Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation: August-September 1945
Southeast Asian Front
Invasion of French Indochina: September 1940
Malayan Campaign: December 1941-January 1942
Battle of Kota Bharu
Operation Krohcol
Naval Battle off Malaya
Battle of Jitra
Battle of Kampar
Battle of Slim River
Battle of Gemas
Battle of Muar
Battle off Endau
Japanese conquest of Burma: January-May 1942
Battle of Bilin River
Battle of Sittang Bridge
Battle of Pegu
Taukkyan Roadblock
Battle of Yunnan-Burma Road
Battle of Toungoo
Battle of Yenangyaung
Battle of Singapore: February 1942
Arakan Campaign 1942-1943: December 1942-May 1943
Burma Campaign 1944: January-November 1944
Operation U-Go
Battle of the Admin Box
Battle of Sangshak
India Campaign: 1944-1945
Battle of Imphal
Battle of Kohima
Burma Campaign 1944-1945: November 1944-July 1945
Battle of Northern Burma and Western Yunnan
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay
Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations
Battle of Hill 170
Battle of Ramree Island
Operation Dracula
Battle of Elephant Point
Battle of the Malacca Strait: May 1945
Operation Tiderace: September 1945
Yes they were. Baseball was played by woman, just to keep the morale up and 3 NFL games were played the day Pearl Harbor was attacked. Gymnastics was also popular during that time.
To be frank, just because a war was on, it did not limit what sports occurred to a specific amount. All of the sports of the age were being played at some point during the war.
They played games like marbles , tig , how many letters in your name , whip' n' top and pretend games. We play some of these games ourselves though we may have changed the rules a bit.
board games
There were several games played in the 1940's. Some games that families played with each other were Monopoly, Chutes and Ladders, and spinning fortune tellers.
He was Truman before ww2, and during ww2. sometime after ww2, he died.
A good seventy countries were involved in WW2, although a lot of these countries didn't come in until the middle of or towards the end of WW2. But France, Britain, Russia, Japan, Poland, Italy, and of course, Germany were involved in WW2 from the beginning to the end.
Model ships were popular before WW2; after WW2, model airplanes, especially rubber band powered airplanes, then fuel (engine) powered model planes became popular. Children also enjoyed collecting scrap metal, knitting and, "spying",
board games
They played the role of being Nurses.
There were no Olympic games in 1942 and 44 due to WW2
it played a big part in ww2
Kids played hopscotch, four square, dodge ball, baseball, jump rope, Red Rover Red Rover, Statues, basket ball, played on gym equipment, played jacks, marbles and pitch.
1916: ww1 1940 & '44: ww2
It depends; both are correct but it depends on the situation."in" examplesI played games in the living room.We played memory games in class.She played games in biology lab and got into trouble."on" examplesYou shouldn't play games on your friends.We played card games on the floor.Friends played the board game on the table.We played word games on our walk through the park.
Adolf Hitler was the guy who started ww2.
Tom Brady career qb rating - team by teamCarolina - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 66.5Baltimore - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 72.5Detroit - # of games played: 3 - QB Rating: 74.9Arizona - # of games played: 1 - QB Rating: 78.8Denver - # of games played: 5 - QB Rating: 78.9Tennessee - # of games played: 3 - QB Rating: 79.4Green Bay - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 80.2Miami - # of games played: 14 - QB Rating: 83.6Seattle - # of games played: 1 - QB Rating: 84.2Cleveland - # of games played: 4 - QB Rating: 84.7Chicago - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 86.1St.Louis - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 88.2Kansas City - # of games played: 4 - QB Rating: 88.9NY Jets - # of games played: 14 - QB Rating: 90.5Houston - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 91.2Oakland - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 92.6San Diego - # of games played: 4 - QB Rating: 93.3Indianapolis - # of games played: 7 - QB Rating: 93.9NY Giants - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 96.5Philadelphia - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 97.1Washington - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 99.4Jacksonville - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 100.1Pittsburgh - # of games played: 4 - QB Rating: 100.7Dallas - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 102.1Buffalo - # of games played: 15 - QB Rating: 102.6San Francisco - # of games played: 1 - QB Rating: 102.9Cincinnati - # of games played: 3 - QB Rating: 111.2Minnesota - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 114.2Tampa Bay - # of games played: 1 - QB Rating: 122.8New Orleans - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 129.5Atlanta - # of games played: 2 - QB Rating: 134.3
All games you can think of. From basketball, to soccer, to American football, many of these games are played in Mexico. Also board games and video games are played there.
Mexico played no role in ww2.
played Video Games