The article deals with the mapping of the Second World War in the context of interpretations of historical events in the scientific literature of countries that were studied. Comparison of cards with foreign national publications, primarily in Western Europe and the United States, allowed identifying a number of differences in the interpretation of the same events of the Second World War. At the same time domestic historical maps like those are very similar to the Belarusian, Russian editions. Keywords: Geoecology of Ukraine, teaching, program, estimating, high education.