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Re:America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says ... by bryanlarsen on Friday July 03, 2026 @01:15PM (#48777381)
If so, we haven't hit the equivalent of Sept 1 1939 yet. That's when WW2 is generally considered to have started, but residents of Manchuria, Austria and the Sudetenland probably consider it to have started earlier.
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Re:America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says ... by soperj on Friday July 03, 2026 @01:39PM (#48777648)
It's only considered to have started then because that's when France and Britain declared war on Germany, and that's who wrote the history books.
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Re:America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says ... by bryanlarsen on Friday July 03, 2026 @02:17PM (#48778091)
Sep 1 1939 is when it escalated from a small number of 2-party wars to a massive multi-party war. It's not the day the war started, it's the day it became a "World War".
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