Question: In 1938, who's population was larger, The Western Allies or the European Axis?
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In Europe, before the outbreak of the war, the Allies had significant advantages in both population and economics.
In 1938, the Western Allies (United Kingdom, France, Poland and British Dominions) had a 30 percent larger population and a 30 percent higher gross domestic product than the European Axis (Germany and Italy); if colonies are included, it then gives the Allies more than a 5:1 advantage in population and nearly 2:1 advantage in GDP.
In Asia at the same time, China had roughly six times the population of Japan, but only an 89 percent higher GDP; this is reduced to three times the population and only a 38 percent higher GDP if Japanese colonies are included.
Though the Allies' economic and population advantages were largely mitigated during the initial rapid blitzkrieg attacks of Germany and Japan, they became the decisive factor by 1942, after the United States and Soviet Union joined the Allies, as the war largely settled into one of attrition.
While the Allies' ability to out-produce the Axis is often attributed to the Allies having more access to natural resources, other factors, such as Germany and Japan's reluctance to employ women in the labour force, Allied strategic bombing, and Germany's late shift to a war economy contributed significantly.
Additionally, neither Germany nor Japan planned to fight a protracted war, and were not equipped to do so.
To improve their production, Germany and Japan used millions of slave labourers; Germany used about 12 million people, mostly from Eastern Europe, while Japan pressed more than 18 million people in Far East Asia.
"Axis & Allies" is a series of board wargames by Larry Harris, which was originally produced by Nova Game Designs in 1981 and later by Milton Bradley in 1984 and by Avalon Hill since 1999.
Avalon Hill is owned by Wizards of the Coast.
Since the Milton Bradley release (which has been retroactively titled Axis & Allies: Classic), many games by many designers (including games in the Axis & Allies series) have borrowed elements from A&A Classic and altered them to increase historical realism or enhance playability.
Axis & Allies: Classic itself has gone through four major revisions, the 2004 Axis & Allies: Revised, the 2009 Axis & Allies: 1942, and the 2012 releases Axis & Allies: 1941 (geared towards casual audiences) and Axis & Allies: 1942 Second Edition (for hobbyist gamers).
Furthermore, other games in the Axis & Allies series (which include the 2008 Axis & Allies: Anniversary Edition) use similar mechanics.
Though an exhaustive comparison is impossible, some of the more common variations are listed here.
This comparison specifically excludes "Axis & Allies Miniatures", whose genre and style of play is entirely different.
There also have been two A&A video games published in 1998 and 2004.
Each of which had an updated version release in 1999 and 2006 respectively. 
The Western Allies were a political and geographic grouping among the Allied Powers of the First World War and Second World War.
It generally includes the British Empire, the United States, France and various other European and Latin American countries, but excludes China, the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and the Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Montenegro and their successor state, Yugoslavia due to different economic, geographic and political circumstances, some of which arose after the wars.
Similarly, Poland and Czechoslovakia are often excluded from the term, because of their post-war forced inclusion in the Eastern Bloc, even though Polish and Czechoslovak armed forces fought alongside Western Allies (Poland fought against Germany before any of the Western Allies joined the war).
Most African and Asian allies not part of the British Commonwealth or France are often excluded from the term, though irregular Arabian and Ethiopian forces fought along the Western Allies.
France is also often counted among the Western Allies, because although the Vichy Regime collaborated with the Axis powers and fought the Allies, the Free French military forces played a major role against the Axis Powers throughout the war, similarly to many nations that endured military occupation and collaboration.
After the Second World War, some of the territory of the defeated Axis powers came under occupation by the Western Allies.
Germany and Austria were divided among American, British, French and Soviet control.
In 1949 the American, British and French sectors in Germany became the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany, while the Soviet sector became the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany.
All four of the Austrian occupation sectors became the Republic of Austria, or Second Austrian Republic.
Austria became a neutral state but Italy, West Germany and a mix of wartime Western Allies and some formerly neutral states taking in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Iceland, Portugal, Spain and Greece became the Western Bloc.
Canada, the United States, and the European countries among this group formed a military alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, to oppose the Eastern Bloc and their military alliance, the Warsaw Pact, which was composed of the wartime Allies Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union, the ex-Axis powers of Bulgaria, East Germany, Hungary and Romania as well as Albania.
The conflict between the Eastern and Western Blocs became known as the Cold War.
Though initially politically close to the Soviet Union, Albania, China, and Yugoslavia became nonaligned over the course of the Cold War.
Cuba, another one of the Allies during World War II, became aligned with the Eastern Bloc after 1959 as did Ethiopia after 1974. 
The Axis powers (, "Sūjikukoku", ), also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or the Axis, were the nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces.
The Axis powers were united by their opposition to the Western world and the Soviet Union.
They described their goals as breaking the hegemony of plutocratic-capitalist Western powers and defending civilization from communism.
The Axis grew out of the Anti-Comintern Pact, an anti-communist treaty signed by Germany and Japan in 1936.
Italy joined the Pact in 1937.
The "Rome–Berlin Axis" became a military alliance in 1939 under the Pact of Steel, with the Tripartite Pact of 1940 leading to the integration of the military aims of Germany and its two treaty-bound allies.
At its zenith during World War II, the Axis presided over territories that occupied large parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
The war ended in 1945 with the defeat of the Axis powers and the dissolution of their alliance.
As in the case of the Allies, membership of the Axis was fluid, with some nations switching sides or changing their degree of military involvement over the course of the war. 
This table shows the relationships in Gross domestic product (GDP), between a selection of Allied and Axis countries, from 1938 to 1945, counted in billion international dollars and 1990 prices.
Notes on the table (remember that the distribution values are rough estimates):  France-Axis distribution: 1940: 56%, 1941-43: 100%, 1944: 58%.
Italy distribution: 1938-1943: 100% Axis, 1944-1945: 100% Allies  Japanese values are included in Axis totals for all years in order to illustrate potential contribution  Soviet Union-Allies distribution: 1939: Only 67% due to the pact with Germany, but none to Axis.
During 1940 Soviet Union is not counted at all.
1941: 44% is distributed to the Allies (after Operation Barbarossa), 1942-1945: 100%.
US values are included in Allied totals for all years in order to illustrate potential contribution & Lend-Lease  The Allied total is "not" the immediate sum of the table values; see the distribution rules used above.
The Axis total is "not" the immediate sum of the table values; see the distribution rules used above.
Allied/Axis GDP: This row shows the relation in GDP between the Allies and the Axis; i.e.
2.00 means the Allied production was 2 times larger than the Axis.
Only a selection of countries are included in the table.
The distribution of values into alliances is described in the previous notes.
Table data source:Harrison, Mark, ""The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison"", Cambridge University Press (1998).