What games were played in WW2?

Answer 1

chess
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.

Answer 2

World War 2 Participants

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,

Papua New Guinea,

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,

Trinidad and Tobago,

Tuvalu,

Uganda,

Vanuatu,

Yemen,

Zambia,

Zimbabwe

United States of America:

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.

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

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.