My Dated Events War Map

I was recently given a spiffing piece of obscure paper ephemera.  It came in this envelope, about a foot square for those of you conversant with the archaic system of measurements:

It's an infographic, before they were called infographics, and it packs a surprising volume of information about all of those things the countries engaged in the conflict we have come to call, perhaps a bit cinematicly, "World War II."

Of course, some parts of the world were more directly involved in the world war...

...than other parts of the world were:

 

Thanks for the update, plumbing and heating contractor E.R. Abrott of Hayward, California!

And of course thanks to the excellent IAT reader who gave me this excellent mappy gift.