Why WW2 SHOULD have Started in 1937 - The Forgotten Bloody Prelude of WW2

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

[The Magistrate]

1. In '31, Actually, Sir

The 'Mukden Incident', September 18, was the real kickoff....

[Warpy]

4. You're right, but it still took them some time to gin up a war NT

[mahina]

2. Can you discern what country this is from? Really?

Their page says Australia and the accent is plain bit it seems to come from a Chinese perspective. I’d like to know.

Interesting!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. This guy has done several historical videos

Not sure where he's from but I can say without a doubt he's not a Chinese propagandist.

[Warpy]

3. I've always said the European war began in 1936

with the Spanish Civil War. In 1937 was the Italo-Ethiopian War, the German takeover of Austria in 1938, followed closely by the grab of the Sudetenland. Most historians start the war from the invasion of Poland in September 1939, but the fascists had been on the move and hell bent on conquering Europe from 1936 onward.

It started for my dad in 1939 when he was attached to the RAF as a civilian engineer.

I'd but the Asian war at 1934 with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and the establishment of the puppet kingdom of Manchuko. The expansion of the war into China proper came later.

Some historians have made a persuasive argument that WWI and WWII in Europe were the same war with a long cease fire in between the major efforts. Given the rise of fascism in Germany, Italy, and Spain during what passed for peace, I'd tend to agree with that.

[Jim__]

5. Only 20% of the Japanese Army ever fought outside of China in WWII - I did not know that.

I fear the war in the Pacific would have been quite different if it weren't for that.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Seems though the US fought in two theaters we didn't get the worst of either.

The bulk of Germany's army was on the Russian front.

[Sherman A1]

6. It did

That some do not recognize it is their problem. What we refer to as World War II should really be called WW3 as the Seven Years War was really the first war fought on a global scale and is arguably the First World War.

[Crowman2009]

7. Kind of hard to do that when you have a great depression and dust bowl occurring at the same time.

Not to mention people not having fond memories of the last war.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. ...AND the returning troops spreading the 1918 "German flu" pandemic.