• Re: WW2 Began This Day, 1939 - Germany Invades Poland

    From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Sep 3 04:33:36 2024
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    On Sun, 1 Sep 2024 19:02:48 -0400, "[email protected]"
    <[email protected]> wrote:


    According to treaties, this obligated the British
    to make war on Germany.

    And so it began.

    That's only when it began in the European theatre.

    Two dates are commonly given for its end -- VE Day and VJ Day, and
    perhaps the same needs to be done for its beginning.

    In Africa, WWII began earlier, on 3 October 1936, when Italy invaded
    Ethiopia.

    In Asia, it began earlier still, on 18 September 1931, when Japan
    invaded Manchuria.

    And even in Europe one could perhaps say it began earlier, with the
    German Anschluss with Austria, perhaps, or the invasion of
    Czechoslovakia.



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