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Originally Posted by JOhn
Well it would all depend on when you thought the war actually started?  |
Not trying to be eurocentric, but I would tend to define it as the invasion of Poland. If not for that, we would've had a big regional war in East Asia, but it would've been a one-continent, one-ocean war for the most part.
The interesting thing is that there was not one, but three precipitating events to blow it up. The initial Japanese attacks in China, Pearl Harbor, and Poland. One could define it many ways, but if you start adding up the Gross National Product involved, Poland was probably the one that kicked it up to an unprecedented level.
It might've eventually happened anyway if Japan was going after British and French colonies, but would've happened in a very different manner.