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At the selected date, the colour of each place shows who held it. To learn its story, click or tap a country or marker.
Drag to move · scroll to zoom · click a country or marker
To move the map on a touch screen, drag it. Pinch to zoom, or double-tap to zoom in.
Commanders once stood over a situation map to see how a war was developing. This map covers ten years across two theaters. Its colors show control of territory, its dashed lines mark fronts, and its arrows trace offensives. Together they let you follow where control changed and where forces advanced.
The Guided Tour follows the war through fifteen chapters. It asks what happened, why it happened, and what each event set in motion, with questions worth arguing about along the way. In Free Explore, you can move through the timeline yourself: click a country for its dossier or a marker for its story. When you are ready, the Field Exam gives you fifteen questions to answer on the map itself.
Keys: ←→ chapters · space play time · +− zoom · ⌘K search · ? all keys.
You can return to the library of twenty-one atlases at any time: select the balloon at the top left.