Re: Grossly OT - WW2 start

[Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 01:57:33PM +0000, Terence wrote:
> If you count Japan's actions in China and Manchuria then the war started in the
> early 'thirties.

If we are to be historically accurate, WWII was a continuation of WWI as
far as the West is concerned, and perhaps even of the Russo-Japanese war
for Asia.

> I don't know where the idea that the USA entered the war to stop the USSR
> invading Western Europe came from. In December 1941 Germany was deep inside
> Russia, and it took the combined Allied might of Great Britain, the USA and the
> USSR nearly four years to defeat them.

Yes. Many argue that the Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of
the war in Europe. 

Haines