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Germany annexed ~50% more territory than it held. By 1939, the size of the country was ~50% larger.

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Germany annexed ~50% more territory than it held. By 1939, the size of the country was ~50% larger.
Germany wanted to repopulate the world with Aryan Germans, while Italy had no similar plans. Italy was also surrounded on 3 sides by water.

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The yellow icons!... The Axis Powers were more aggressive at the beginning of the war; their offensives during the first 3 years of the war first moved east in 1940, west in 1941, then east in 1942

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Nearly 4,000 miles

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Nearly 4,000 miles
Asia and the Pacific were sea-based; Europe was land-based