The war encompassed the world.

There was fighting on the continents of Africa, Europe and Asia (Eurasia), Naval campaigns in the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, soldiers in the Allied armies came from as far afield as Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, India, New Zealand, West and East Africa. Africa and South America provided food and raw materials to the Allied cause, North America supplied soldiers, food and materiel, WWII was a TRUE World War.

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