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[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 37 points 1 week ago (9 children)

What Trump did is even worse. There was a World War going on in 1941. Trump's trying to initiate one.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago (8 children)

This post made me wonder about when WWII became an actual "World War", which turned out to be a rather interesting topic:

This is an article about when the US started calling the conflicts it was fighting in "World War II":

https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2014/09/22/how-and-when-did-world-war-ii-officially-become-world-war-ii/

I only found that info of the topic after 2 min on Duckduckgo on my phone, still quite interesting.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Way back in my high school history class, we had a discussion about the start of WWII, and 3 dates were of particular note.

  • The conventional date, when Germany incades Poland.
  • The much earlier date when Japan's invasion of Manchuria turns into an all-out war, starting the Second Sino-Japanese War. This is, after all, the start of something declared a "war"which would eventually form part of WWII.
  • Pearl Harbour. This marks the beginning of the US's direct involvement in the war, turning it from two separate localised wars into one global war.

Personally, I always found the conventional date the least convincing of the three. The arguments for the other two both make a lot more sense to me.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Two other options would be:

A. End of the Molotov/Ribbentrop pact (any war with Russia is technically transcontinental)

B. British sinking of the Vichy fleet (happened in a lot of places right?)

Or paradigm adjustments to the two you suggested:

A. France/Britain declaring war in response to German invasion of Poland (committing their global empires to the conflict)

B. Japanese campaign in Malaysia and Indonesia adding that theatre to Japan's war and putting them at war with.... Ummm other empires.... I think British and dutch?
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