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FINLAND
NORWAY
350 km
Helsinki
SWEDEN
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ea
Riga
LATVIA
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Ba
IRELAND
Peenemünde
Coventry
PO
94
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Rome liberated
June 4, 1944 Anzio
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Rome
ria
Naples
Sardinia
Gibraltar
Tangiers
SP. MOROCCO
Algiers
Oran
Sicily
TUNISIA
ALGERIA
Se
a
AVIA
Territory that remained
under Soviet control
Area under Allied control
by December 1942
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Black Sea
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BU
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Istanbul
Ankara
TURKEY
Athens
Reggio GREECE
Mediterranean Sea
(Fr.)
Maximum extent of territory
under Axis control
Yalta
SYRIA
(Fr.)
IRAQ
(Br.)
Tunis
Kasserine Pass
Feb. 14–22, 1943
MOROCCO
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44
SPAIN
Ad
Bucharest
Belgrade
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D ec
late June
1 9 44
Corsica
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4
Dec. 194
942
Kiev
ROMANIA
FRANCE
Marseille
RT
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ov
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Stalingrad
Aug. 21, 1942–
Jan. 31, 1943
N
C ZE
POLAND
e 1944
late Jun
5
Prague
GERMANY
Minsk
OSLOVA
KIA
Aug. 25, 1944
Battle of the Bulge Nuremberg
Vienna
Dec. 16, 1944–
Budapest
Jan. 31, 1945
AUSTRIA
SWITZ.
Vichy
HUNGARY
Bordeaux
(Fr.)
Dresden
Warsaw
UNION OF SOVIET
SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Moscow
Germans repulsed
Dec. 1941
LITHUANIA
944
c. 1
De
19 4
Bay of
Biscay
D ec. 1944
Plymouth
Brussels
Normandy
D day
Paris
Paris liberated
June 1944
Berlin surrendered
May 2, 1945
Ma y
Amsterdam
London
EAST
PRUSSIA
Danzig
44
Leningrad besieged
Sept. 1941–Jan. 1944
Dec. 1
9 43
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
19
e
UNITED
KINGDOM
J
un
Dec. 1944
North
Sea
ESTONIA
N ov. 1942
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June
1944
World War II in Europe and the Middle East, 1939–1945
Western Allied position
Major battle
JORDAN
(Br.)
Tobruk
Neutral
Soviet position
Jerusalem
El Alamein
Palestine
TRANSOct. 23–Nov. 5, 1942 (Br. Mandate)
Dec. 1942
LIBYA
(It. until 1943/
then Br.-Fr.)
Nov. 1942
EGYPT
(Br.)
SAUDI
ARABIA
Red
Sea
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