WWII Basic Training1939-1945

Season

Teams

AXIS POWERSJ. Japan

I. Italy

G. Germany

ALLIED POWERSS. Soviet Union

U. United States

B. Britain

F. France (sort of)

Playing Field

Three Theaters

Europe Africa PacificHitler/Mussolini Hitler/Mussolini Japan

vs. vs. vs.

Allied Powers Allied Powers U.S.

Coaches and PlayersGermany

Der Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler General Erwin Rommel Desert Fox (Africa), D-Day

Coach - Italy

IL Duce – Benito Mussolini

Coach and PlayersJapan

Emperor Hirohito Leader Hideki Tojo Admiral YamamotoFigurehead Political and military Planned Pearl Harbor

Coaches - France

General Charles de Gaulle Field Marshall Henry PetainLeader - Free French Forces Leader, Vichy France

Players – Great Britain

General Bernard MontgomeryAllied Commander - Battle of El Alamein, Africa

Coach - USSR

Man of Steel - Joseph Stalin

Coaches – Great Britain

Neville Chamberlain Winston ChurchillPrime Minister Prime MinisterAppeased Hitler Declared War on Hitler

Coaches – United States

President 1932-1945 President 1945-1952Pearl Harbor, D-day Atomic Bombs

Players – United States

General Dwight D. Eisenhower Douglas MacArthurAllied Commander, Europe General – PacificD-day

Spring Training

GermanyRhineland (1936)Austria (1938)Sudetenland (1938)Czechoslovakia (1939)

JapanKorea (1910)Manchuria (1931)China (1937)

ItalyEthiopia (1935)

Season OpenerPoland

September 1, 1939Spark

Strategy to win – Blitzkrieg “Lightening War”All out attack of planes and tanks

followed by infantryNo more trench warfare and cavalry

Great Britain and France Declare WarOn Germany

Major League Games Scheduled1940-1945 Season

Battle of Dunkirk Europe 1940Battle of France Europe 1940Battle of Britain Europe 1940Invasion of Russia Europe 1940Pearl Harbor Pacific 1941Battle of Midway Pacific 1942Battle of Stalingrad Europe 1942Battle of El Alamein North Africa 1942D-Day Europe 1944Battle of the Bulge Europe 1944Battle of Iwo Jima Pacific 1945Battle of Okinawa Pacific 1945Battle of Berlin Europe 1945Hiroshima/Nagasaki Pacific 1945