Prompt 3 of 7
Name a country that fought in World War II
77 accepted answers across 5 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion2 answersShow answersHide answers
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Cuba— Declared war on the Axis days after Pearl Harbor.
- Mongolia— Declared war on Japan in August 1945 alongside the Soviets.
85 ptsDeep Cut39 answersShow answersHide answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Bahrain— Its sheikh took Bahrain to war on September 10, 1939.
- Belarus— Byelorussia got its own founding seat at the UN in 1945.
- Bolivia— Its tin mines were supplying the Allies before the April 1943 declaration.
- Chile— Broke with the Axis in 1943 and declared war on Japan in April 1945.
- Colombia
- Costa Rica— Its congress voted for war on Japan on December 8, 1941.
- Croatia
- Dominican Republic— Trujillo declared war on the whole Axis within days of Pearl Harbor.
- Ecuador— Joined the Allies on paper in February 1945, never sending troops.
- El Salvador— Signed up against Japan on December 8, 1941, then the Axis.
- Guatemala— Ubico's Guatemala was at war with Japan by December 9, 1941.
- Haiti— At war with Japan from December 8, 1941, and Germany by the 12th.
- Honduras— Declared on Japan December 8 and the European Axis on the 13th.
- Jordan— Transjordan's Arab Legion fought in Iraq and Syria in 1941.
- Kuwait— Kuwait's sheikh followed Britain into the war in November 1939.
- Lebanon— Two years after independence, it went to war with the Axis in 1945.
- Liberia— Firestone rubber made it an Allied supplier long before its 1944 declaration.
- Luxembourg
- Manchukuo— Japan's puppet state declared war on America on December 8, 1941.
- Morocco— Moroccan Goumiers fought at Monte Cassino under the French flag.
- Myanmar— Ba Maw's State of Burma declared war on Britain and America in 1943.
- Nepal
- Newfoundland— Still a dominion in 1939, it followed Britain into war within a day.
- Nicaragua— Somoza declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy in December 1941.
- Oman— Muscat and Oman entered the war on September 10, 1939.
- Panama— Guarding the Canal, it went to war with Japan within a day.
- Paraguay— Its February 1945 declaration came six weeks before Germany surrendered.
- Peru— Signed on against the Axis on February 12, 1945.
- San Marino— German troops crossed it in September 1944, and it went to war.
- Saudi Arabia— Joined the war on paper in March 1945 and never fired a shot.
- Slovakia
- Syria— Newly independent, it took on Germany and Japan in February 1945.
- Tonga— Queen Salote declared war in 1939, and Tongans later fought at Guadalcanal.
- Tunisia— Entered the war under France and became the 1943 battleground.
- Tuva— Went to war with Germany on June 22, 1941, hours after the invasion.
- Ukraine— Seated as a founding UN member in 1945 as the Ukrainian SSR.
- Uruguay— Hosted the Graf Spee's last stand in 1939, declared war in 1945.
- Venezuela— Its oil fueled the Allies for years before the 1945 declaration.
- Zimbabwe— Southern Rhodesia went to war on its own on September 3, 1939.
60 ptsRare11 answersShow answersHide answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Albania
- Argentina
- Czechoslovakia
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Mexico
- Philippines
- Thailand
- Turkey
30 ptsSchooler17 answersShow answersHide answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Denmark
- Finland
- Greece
- Hungary
- India
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Romania
- South Africa
- Yugoslavia
10 ptsPlankton8 answersShow answersHide answers
The most common answer on the board.
- China
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- Soviet Union
- United Kingdom
- United States