Can you name the countries, colonies and territories that were invaded during World War Two? by Peanut

Invaded by	Country/Colony/Territory	Date
Allied Forces		November 1942
Germany		May 1940
USSR		September 1944
Japan		January 1942
Japan		December 1941
Japan		January 1942
Italy		August 1940
Japan		December 1941
USSR		August 1945
Germany		April 1940
Italy		September 1940
USSR		June 1940
USSR		November 1939
Germany		May 1940
Great Britain		October 1941
Japan		December 1941
Allied Forces		1944
Italy		October 1940
Germany		June 1940
Japan		December 1941
USSR		September 1944

Invaded by	Country/Colony/Territory	Date
Great Britain		May 1940
USA and Great Britain		July 1943
Great Britain		1941
Japan		March 1944
Japan		September 1940
Great Britain and USSR		August 1941
Great Britain		May 1941
USA		1945
Germany		June 1940
USSR		June 1940
Allied Forces		June 1941
Great Britain		December 1940
USSR		June 1940
Germany		May 1940
Italy		July 1940
USSR		August 1945
Great Britain		May 1942
Italy		1943
Allied Forces		November 1942
Japan		1942
Germany		May 1940

Invaded by	Country/Colony/Territory	Date
Japan		December 1941
Japan		1942
Japan		January 1942
Germany		April 1940
Japan		December 1941
Germany and USSR		September 1939
Japan		February 1942
USSR		August 1944
Germany		September 1944
Japan		December 1941
Japan		February 1942
USA		1943
Italy		July 1940
Allied Forces		June 1941
Japan		December 1941
Allied Forces		November 1942
Japan		1941
Germany		June 1941
Axis Forces		April 1941
	April 1941
	April 1941
	April 1941
	April 1941
	April 1941
	April 1941

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WWII Invasions Quiz

by Peanut

Created Nov 14, 2009 in History
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	XCivilWarGhost5X:	Nov 14th, 2009 at 23:40 GMT		-1 points
	Nice

	Peanut:	Nov 15th, 2009 at 00:44 GMT		2 points
	Feel free to post any corrections you may have, I know full well I'm not infallible.

	Pyrophorus:	Nov 15th, 2009 at 19:04 GMT		11 points
	How the heck did I miss Germany, along with about 13% of sporclers?

	Peanut:	Nov 15th, 2009 at 21:00 GMT		2 points
	Because everyone thinks that Germany invaded everyone else... and forgets the whole end of the war. I'm suprised that more people remembered that the USA was actually invaded when that was only outlying islands, when Germany was much more.... invaded? Can you be more invaded?

	lmgsma:	Nov 15th, 2009 at 22:10 GMT		3 points
	The fact that many people remember USA being invaded it's because when you write USSR, it first recognize US.

	mdh10:	Nov 16th, 2009 at 01:19 GMT		2 points
	Great Game Peanut.

	adamnvillani:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 07:22 GMT		3 points
	Well, people in the US remember Hawaii being bombed, even though it was only a territory at the time. Less well known is that the Aleutians were also invaded. There were also U-boats off the east coast and random Japanese subs off the west coast.

	Probus:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 11:32 GMT		4 points
	Excellent quiz. I might be tempted to add Abyssinia/Ethiopia which though seized by Italy prior to Sept 1939 was subsequently liberated in 1941 by a British-led force (Gideon Force) that restored Haile Selassie to power.

	swellwrench:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 20:06 GMT		2 points
	Nauru is out of alphabetical order, which left me confusedly trying to figure out what other territory starting with "Netherlands..." had been invaded...

	shakescene:	Dec 23rd, 2009 at 10:43 GMT		2 points
	Poland was invaded by Russia (from the East) within a couple of weeks of the German invasion, so the left-hand invaded-by box for Poland should probably say Germany & USSR.

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	adzaho31:	Dec 23rd, 2009 at 20:09 GMT		0 points
	Manchuko should be considered part of China and "Papua New Guinea" should be accepted for "New Guinea." Otherwise, nice.

	Hotbeans:	Dec 28th, 2009 at 11:16 GMT		-2 points
	San Marino was never invaded....... just bombed accidentally onced by the allies

	Peanut:	Jan 10th, 2010 at 01:16 GMT		1 point
	Abysinnia will be added for the liberation (which was still technically an invasion), my mistake, Nauru will be put in the right order and Poland will be considered as invaded by USSR too (can't believe I forgot that). Manchuko is not considered part of China as it was set up, admittedly as a puppet state of Japan, as a state before the war, seized at a similar time to Abysinnia. It was invaded as part of the main hostilities of WW2, for which it is included. San Marino was invaded, incredibly briefly by Germany in September 1944, who held the country for 3 days. New Guinea now also accepts Papua New Guinea.

	Packfan:	Mar 15th, 2010 at 05:07 GMT		1 point
	I love the quiz. I'm a big time WWII guy. Very challenging quiz I must say!

	carbon_rod:	Jul 13th, 2010 at 23:19 GMT		7 points
	Some nits: If you're going to list Manchukuo, you should list other Axis puppet states too, like Slovakia and Croatia. Also, why does Dutch Timor get its own listing? Why not include it with Dutch East Indies? Sudan, Eritrea, British Somaliland, and Italian Somaliland should be included (Italy conquered British Somaliland and invaded Sudan; Britain then conquered or liberated those territories and Abyssinia). Madagascar should also be listed (British landing in 1943 against Vichy French forces). If Malaya is to be listed separately, then Sarawak, Brunei, and British North Borneo should be added.

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	Backmarker:	Oct 4th, 2010 at 20:52 GMT		1 point
	Guernsey and Jersey should be listed separately, rather than as the Channel Islands, as they're separate Bailiwicks, not one political unit. Also, the Soviets reached Korea and China when they declared war on the Japanese in 1945, and took Hokkaido. @lpw88, the Americans took Okinawa, which is an island of present-day Japan. I assume that's what's referred to.

	AdamBishop:	Oct 5th, 2010 at 03:31 GMT		-1 points
	What about Australia? It was attacked by Japan.

	johnlk:	Oct 26th, 2010 at 19:52 GMT		1 point
	What about the Solomon Islands?

	toledorockets:	Apr 6th, 2011 at 02:39 GMT		1 point
	It's difficult to determine if you mean modern countries or countries that existed then. It looks like a little of both. If it is the former than you neglected Palau (by America), Micronesia, Kiribati, and Solomon Islands (by Japan and then America). Papua New Guinea and Indonesia would have to be by both USA and Japan. Also Samoa was never invaded by Japan. Also you neglected Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union. Overall I enjoyed the quiz.

	lhippocampe:	Jun 2nd, 2011 at 11:11 GMT		2 points
	Missed four, and out of them three i understood... but really how can one miss Germany on that question... duh!!

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	jefrunner:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 15:29 GMT		3 points
	PublicEnemy: At the time, Iceland was still united with Denmark. Denmark asserted its neutrality during the war, but then was invaded anyway. With the expected fall of Norway to German forces as well, the UK and then the US occupied Iceland in order to maintain naval bases and anti-aircraft forces in the North Atlantic.

	carbon_rod:	Jun 4th, 2011 at 20:08 GMT		2 points
	In case anyone's wondering, he still hasn't fixed any of his omissions/errors.

	Littlecorporal:	Jun 7th, 2011 at 02:55 GMT		5 points
	If your going to call the countries on this quiz by their WWII era names (ei. Abyssinia rather than Ethiopia) then Iran, should by switched to Persia, or at least that answer should be excepted.

	AtomicIce:	Jun 14th, 2011 at 03:48 GMT		1 point
	Samoa should NOT be on this quiz, and Solomon Islands should be.

	bamachile:	Jun 20th, 2011 at 16:44 GMT		1 point
	Please accept 'Siam', as this was Thailand's name at the time

	lpw88:	Aug 16th, 2011 at 17:40 GMT		2 points
	Madagascar was occupied by the British.

	profxyz:	Oct 6th, 2011 at 10:04 GMT		1 point
	Can you add Mongolia (at least as a bonus?) the Japanese did make some probing attacks into Mongolian territory at Nonmohan...

	johnlk:	Oct 6th, 2011 at 18:14 GMT		1 point
	Wasn't Burma rather more invaded by Japan than by Britain?

	singaporean:	Dec 30th, 2011 at 05:58 GMT		1 point
	Um, Singapore was invaded on 7 February 1942, not December 1941... That was Malaysia...

	demonstah:	Feb 25th, 2012 at 17:31 GMT		1 point
	Why does Timor work for Dutch Timor, but not for Portuguese Timor?

	Peanut:	May 26th, 2012 at 04:06 GMT		1 point
	Right, I'd forgotten to update this in ages but I think now I've fixed all the errors. Colonies are being named by either the official or most commonly used contemporary names for the administrative areas. The South Sea or South Pacific Mandate, for example, now encompasses Palau and the Marshall islands among others. Malaysia is now broken up into the units it was in at the time, Sarawak, North Borneo and British Malaya - as well as Brunei and Singapore. Guernsey and Jersey are separate. Ethiopia/Abyssinia, Italian Somaliland and Eritrea are all subsumed under Italian East Africa, which they were all part of in 1939. Dutch Timor is within the Dutch East Indies. Various missing invasions have been added: Madagascar, Sudan, Kenya, British and French Somaliland, China and Korea (both by the USSR in 1945.) Others which were wrong - Samoa, have been removed. Puppet states are now not included.

	Peanut:	May 26th, 2012 at 04:15 GMT		1 point
	Iran and Thailand both now accept variant names. However, I still feel that it is fair to list them by these names as: 1) Iran was the preferred nomenclature by the Iranian government from 1935. It was insisted upon by Churchill at the Tehran conference, 1943, that it be referred to as Persia by the Allies. 2) Thailand was not called Siam when it was invaded by Japan. It changed its name to Thailand shortly before it was invaded in 1939. However, after the war, they reverted to Siam for a time. Czechoslovakia is still limited to a bonus because the Czech part had been completely subsumed into the German Reich before WW2 in the same way that Austria had, only forcefully. Slovakia was set up as a puppet state but as puppet states are no longer being included, it is not there either. Mongolia is now a bonus answer, there were border skirmishes between Mongolia/USSR and Japan, but this was before September 1939, the traditional starting point of WW2.

	carbon_rod:	Jun 20th, 2012 at 00:52 GMT		1 point
	It does look like pretty much all errors and omissions have been fixed. You do have a typo for French Somaliland (1914 instead of 1941). Several possible additions: the Free French seized French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France in 1940, and Austria and Czechoslovakia could be added as Allied invasions (they were invaded by the Allies in the process of liberating them, much like Korea, which you do have listed). Still, significantly better.

	Kredstarr:	Aug 6th, 2012 at 11:39 GMT		0 points
	Australia isn't there. Darwin was bombed.

	Scout_Number_4:	Dec 27th, 2012 at 23:30 GMT		1 point
	I'm embarrassed to admit that I just now stumbled onto this quiz--now CP'd. Nice work, Peanut.