As the largest, most widespread and most deadly world war in human history, the Second World War is still hot even today, decades later. Although the scope of World War II is very wide, and there are many countries involved, there are still nearly half of the world's countries, but they can do it alone, almost did not suffer the baptism of the fire of World War II, so what are these countries doing during the turbulent World War II?
For example, in South America during World War II, most of the countries located in this land maintained a neutral attitude towards World War II. After all, the situation in South America at that time was different, many countries had just been established, and their domestic conditions had not yet stabilized, so they had no intention of being powerless in World War II, and they did not have the heart and energy to participate in the war. For example, Chile, Paraguay and other countries at that time were busy consolidating their own domestic power and fighting with the opposition; at that time, mexico was not in a good situation, and it was mired in civil war. So for these countries, when their internal environment is not stable, they can't care about the situation in World War II, as long as they don't hit their own territory, everything has nothing to do with me. Although Brazil was an exception to this, it was also a visionary allied camp of teams and participated in World War II as a subordinate unit of the U.S. army at the time, and its Brazilian navy had a brief firefight with the Germans in the Atlantic.
Focusing on the African continent at that time, many parts of Africa were included in their colonies by the early British, so Britain and some African countries at that time also mainly concentrated their battlefields in North Africa during World War II. But African armies, which have always been relatively backward and impoverished, are militarily difficult to counter the menacing Axis members. However, Italy, which was one of the axis powers at the time, also aimed its strategic goals here because it was geographically closest to Africa. However, we all know the strength of the Italian army in World War II, as a friendly participant, the general army is not strong, and it surrenders at every turn, and the weak will of the Italian army to fight, so that the Italian army was defeated one after another in the face of the Egyptian and British armies. Germany was also heartbroken for its ally at this time, so it had to ask General Rommel to send troops to assist, of course, the main reason why the German army was willing to help its allies was that it valued the strategic advantage of Africa's geographical location.
In West Asia, this region is relatively lively, and due to the special geographical location, coupled with the rich oil resources, the situation here is more complicated. However, during World War II, the West Asian region was almost reduced to a British colony, so many countries here also calculated whether they could take advantage of the opportunity of World War II to get rid of British control and establish an independent country. For example, Iran, at the beginning, just saw germany, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom fighting to break the net, and wanted to benefit from it, although it ostensibly claimed to be neutral, but privately wanted to seek cooperation with the German side to achieve the purpose of its own independent statehood, but the reality was that Iran at that time was forced to abdicate by Britain and the Soviet Union in the past, and then it exiled itself.
Saudi Arabia in West Asia can be said to be a very peaceful country during World War II, because Saudi Arabia is a big oil user, oil is an indispensable strategic resource for war, and Germany at that time was also facing the problem of oil shortage at any time, so it did not dare to move Saudi Arabia. Coupled with the fact that Saudi Arabia was also very prescient, before the start of World War II, it had sought the protection of relevant allies, so Germany did not dare to move, and wanted the protection of many countries, Saudi Arabia sat back and relaxed during the entire Second World War, almost unaffected by the war. In addition to maintaining a neutral attitude toward the outside world, Saudi Arabia was also very clever to make a lot of war money during World War II.
In fact, in the European battlefield of World War II, although it is also a fierce battlefield of war, but countries like Switzerland have also maintained a neutral attitude, did not participate in World War II, and Saudi Arabia, Germany also has to be jealous of Switzerland, dare not easily move it, after all, Switzerland's banking industry is developed, many countries' funds are stored in Swiss banks, Germany is no exception, and if Germany wants to let Swiss banks help him launder war money, it is best not to offend Switzerland. As a result, Switzerland became a peaceful country that was not devastated by the war in World War II.