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In my country the attack on Poland is considered to be the beginning of the war
Arguably all the answers are correct (except for 1914 that’s more of a joke answer) so he doesn’t know which one to pick.
Most sources agree that September 1939 was the start of the war.
The usa joining doesn’t do anything for the global claim as there were already countries from around the world all involved with the war already
Dates that are popular for WW2’s start date.
Unlike WW1 which was triggered swiftly by an assassination that blew up into the war we know today, WW2 started slower. The 4 main times people consider WW2’s beginning is 1937 (Japan’s second invasion of China, the post references the first war), 1939 (The generally agreed upon date, as this started the allies vs axis division) June 1941 (Operation Barbarossa, not a popular start date at all, but I think I’ve heard this one before) and December 1941 (Japan’s attack on the US, saying war in both hemispheres).
Does it irritate anyone else that these are almost in reverse chronological order?
I’m sorry, but I’m having trouble with ‘B’. Germany, France, Italy, U.K., Canada, Australia, Poland, Greece, South Africa, et al. aren’t enough to make it a “global” conflict?
Wasn’t Hitler in the German army in 1914 and not in any kind of office? Lol
I’ve never heard any other date than 1939 being mentioned as the start of WW2 so I don’t get why this meme is accurate
Ugh, UK education.
I was never taught that Japan invaded China. Wtf?
U.S. born and raised so just be easy. Read most of the R-pe of Nanjing and how John Rabe was respected *enough* by the Japanese solely for the fact he was a Nazi, and how he protected the residents was such a hard thing to wrap my head around
I feel weird about saying this, but the answer is NOT “B”. We, the USA, just like to think that it is.
You couldn’t figure out the context here and just look up these events yourself?
B is stupid. You can make that argument but even then Canada, Australia, India, etc were already in the war at that point. By virtue of empire it was a global conflict from the very beginning.
As far as I know :
Some people in the US tend to think that WW2 started with Pearl Harbor (December 1941). Schools (at least in Europe) teach that WW2 started with Nazi Germany and the USSR invading Poland in 1939.
However, ammost everyone agrees that Japan was part of WW2. And Japan’s campaign across Asia started much earlier, in 1931. Does that mean WW2 started in 1931 ? I personally disagree, since at the time it wasn’t a World War (yet) ; but, the argument can be made.
Hitler fought in WW1, so he technically started invading France in 1914.
But hey, some World War 1 officers were veterans of the War of 1870. Some of which probably saw the Algerian invasion of 1830. And some of *those* soldiers definitely partook in the Napoleonic Wars. *Did Napoleon start World War 2 …?*
Everyone knows the correct answer is when Hitler was told he would never make it as an artist smh
Mussolini and Hirohito were of course also failed artists though unfortunately all evidence of this has been lost to time
… /s
Picasso would never
A is the most common answer.
B is objectively wrong and US-centric as Canada was involved in 1939.
C is entirely valid as the beginning of the Asian conflict of WW2.
D is obviously a joke.
In a few hundred years, assuming humans are still around and studying history, they will probably be studied as a single conflict with a ceasefire in the middle, as we do with the 30 Years War or the Hundred Years War today.
Are we in the WWIII already?
Hi, Meg here.
This text question is something of a mean trick, because semantically, any of these answers could be correct.
The German Invasion of Poland is conventionally the standard answer, but the Japanese Invasion of Manchuria is also an arguable answer depending on how strictly one considers the Pre-US Pacific Theater to be a part of WW2. The 1941 answer is probably the least correct, but since the US declaration of war was what made both theaters most directly connected, it is arguable. Lastly, some historians take a somewhat revisionist approach and consider WW1 and WW2 to ultimately be one incredibly long conflict.
The man underneath is from a clip of film media where he repeatedly pleads “no” in disbelief of his situation. The meme is supposed to express that, if one received this question on a history test, it would cause distress due to how subjective it is.
Meg out.
I can understand them all except for B. It was a global conflict with or without them.