I would agree. I took a history course on WW2, where the professor argued that the start date is 1937, as the conflict in China was important to WW2.
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I don't think it turned into a world conflict until Germany invaded Poland. Before hand it was mainly in asia, now Europe was involved. That might just be me, but I'm sticking to it.
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its safe to say that this isnt the start of a world war because world war requires great powers and its colonies drag in and japan just have a fued with china at that time.
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I believe that it wasn’t until the Germans got involved with Poland that the conflict became sufficiently wide spread or bloody enough so as to constitute a world war. But then again, what constitutes a ‘world war’ is a little vaporous, since if we were to say that it was just the spread of the conflict which constituted a ‘world war’, we would have to include the Seven Years War as a world war, yet, clearly, we do not.
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Mein Lieber Kamerad
Hey, guys! 84 years ago, on August 13, 1937, during the Second Sino - Japanese War, Japanese troops captured Beijing. It is curious that exactly 37 years before, but on August 14, coalition troops, including the Japanese, also captured Beijing during the suppression of the Ihetuan uprising.
Some historians criticize the Eurocentric or "Western" reading of history. They believe that the beginning of the Second World War should be counted from this Sino - Japanese conflict, and not from the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the USSR in September 1939. What do you think about this?
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