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'Not One Continent or Two Continents But All Continents May Become Involved in a World-Wide War' - Roosevelt, May 31, 1940
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'Not One Continent or Two Continents But All Continents May Become Involved in a World-Wide War' - Roosevelt, May 31, 1940

This is a pictorial map of the world during World War II, published in the American newspaper Detroit Times. Times artists chose not to draw the hemispheres in the traditional eastern/western configuration, but instead illustrates the Pacific theater of war on the left and the European/African/Atlantic theaters on the right.

Date
January 4, 1942
Mapmaker / publisher
Detroit Times
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
4,000 × 2,590 pixels

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Reason: its US copyright was not renewed (published 1931–1963).

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"'Not One Continent or Two Continents But All Continents May Become Involved in a World-Wide War' - Roosevelt, May 31, 1940" (January 4, 1942). Detroit Times, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pictorial_Map_of_the_World_During_World_War_II,_1942.jpg

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