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What Trump did is even worse. There was a World War going on in 1941. Trump's trying to initiate one.
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.
Way back in my high school history class, we had a discussion about the start of WWII, and 3 dates were of particular note.
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.
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: