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WWII Basic Training 1939-1945 Season. AXIS POWERS Japan Italy G. Germany. ALLIED POWERS S. Soviet Union U. United States Britain F. France (sort of). Teams. Playing Field. Three Theaters Europe Africa Pacific Hitler/Mussolini Hitler/Mussolini Japan
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AXIS POWERS Japan Italy G. Germany ALLIED POWERS S. Soviet Union U. United States Britain F. France (sort of) Teams
Playing Field Three Theaters Europe Africa Pacific Hitler/Mussolini Hitler/Mussolini Japan vs. vs. vs. Allied Powers Allied Powers U.S.
Coaches and PlayersGermany Der Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler General Erwin Rommel Desert Fox (Africa), D-Day
Coach - Italy IL Duce – Benito Mussolini
Coach and PlayersJapan Emperor Hirohito Leader Hideki Tojo Admiral Yamamoto Figurehead Political and military Planned Pearl Harbor
Coaches - France General Charles de Gaulle Field Marshall Henry Petain Leader - Free French Forces Leader, Vichy France
Players – Great Britain General Bernard Montgomery Allied Commander - Battle of El Alamein, Africa
Coach - USSR Man of Steel - Joseph Stalin
Coaches – Great Britain Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill Prime Minister Prime Minister Appeased Hitler Declared War on Hitler
Coaches – United States President 1932-1945 President 1945-1952 Pearl Harbor, D-day Atomic Bombs
Players – United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower Douglas MacArthur Allied Commander, Europe General – Pacific D-day
Germany Rhineland (1936) Austria (1938) Sudetenland (1938) Czechoslovakia (1939) Japan Korea (1910) Manchuria (1931) China (1937) Spring Training • Italy • Ethiopia (1935)
Season OpenerPoland September 1, 1939 Spark Strategy to win – Blitzkrieg “Lightening War” All out attack of planes and tanks followed by infantry No more trench warfare and cavalry Great Britain and France Declare War On Germany
Major League Games Scheduled1940-1945 Season Battle of Dunkirk Europe 1940 Battle of France Europe 1940 Battle of Britain Europe 1940 Invasion of Russia Europe 1940 Pearl Harbor Pacific 1941 Battle of Midway Pacific 1942 Battle of Stalingrad Europe 1942 Battle of El Alamein North Africa 1942 D-Day Europe 1944 Battle of the Bulge Europe 1944 Battle of Iwo Jima Pacific 1945 Battle of Okinawa Pacific 1945 Battle of Berlin Europe 1945 Hiroshima/Nagasaki Pacific 1945