Poll: When did WW2 begin?

[Strazdas]

japan invasion was a local small imporatance (to the world scale). Anexation of austrial wasnt technically military action.
1939 are the time real world war broke up, as Hitler started a war that lasted to the end of the war (technically Germany capitulated sooner but japan by that time being aprt of axis continued)

 

[TheIronRuler]

japan invasion was a local small imporatance (to the world scale). Anexation of austrial wasnt technically military action.
1939 are the time real world war broke up, as Hitler started a war that lasted to the end of the war (technically Germany capitulated sooner but japan by that time being aprt of axis continued)

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You're barely right about the Austrian annexation - German military forces marched into the country and the Austrian armies were ready to fight. The issue here is that the Austrian president ordered them to stand down and abdicated himself. Soon after that a national-socialist party in Austria which had very close ties with the NSDAP. Fast forward a few weeks later and Austria is officially absorbed into Germany. What the Austrian president did was to try and preserve the lives of his people since defeat against the German armies (at least so he thought, the German armies marching onto Austria were VERY disorganized) would spell death and destruction in Austria... not that it didn't stop allied and Comintern armies from tearing shit up there during the last stages of the war.

 

[Strazdas]

japan invasion was a local small imporatance (to the world scale). Anexation of austrial wasnt technically military action.
1939 are the time real world war broke up, as Hitler started a war that lasted to the end of the war (technically Germany capitulated sooner but japan by that time being aprt of axis continued)

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You're barely right about the Austrian annexation - German military forces marched into the country and the Austrian armies were ready to fight. The issue here is that the Austrian president ordered them to stand down and abdicated himself. Soon after that a national-socialist party in Austria which had very close ties with the NSDAP. Fast forward a few weeks later and Austria is officially absorbed into Germany. What the Austrian president did was to try and preserve the lives of his people since defeat against the German armies (at least so he thought, the German armies marching onto Austria were VERY disorganized) would spell death and destruction in Austria... not that it didn't stop allied and Comintern armies from tearing shit up there during the last stages of the war.

while its ture military pressure was applied, there was no real battle.

 

[TheIronRuler]

japan invasion was a local small imporatance (to the world scale). Anexation of austrial wasnt technically military action.
1939 are the time real world war broke up, as Hitler started a war that lasted to the end of the war (technically Germany capitulated sooner but japan by that time being aprt of axis continued)

.
You're barely right about the Austrian annexation - German military forces marched into the country and the Austrian armies were ready to fight. The issue here is that the Austrian president ordered them to stand down and abdicated himself. Soon after that a national-socialist party in Austria which had very close ties with the NSDAP. Fast forward a few weeks later and Austria is officially absorbed into Germany. What the Austrian president did was to try and preserve the lives of his people since defeat against the German armies (at least so he thought, the German armies marching onto Austria were VERY disorganized) would spell death and destruction in Austria... not that it didn't stop allied and Comintern armies from tearing shit up there during the last stages of the war.

while its ture military pressure was applied, there was no real battle.

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It was very close to a conflict, which is why I gave the option in the thread.

 

[I'mANinja]

June 28, 1919, the signing of the treaty of Versailles when Germany got completely screwed over.