The Beginning of WWII

[Kevin J]

Thanks for the negative mark - I pointed out the obvious and you went full retard...be glad I don't go back and down vote every effin' post you've ever made.

WWI is NOT the start of WWII, it was the excuse used by the National Socialists and *IF* Britain and France had NOT crushed Germany with the war debt, causing the collapse of the German economy, chances are, the National Socialists would not have had a platform for their rise to power.

Europe had been in a transitional stage at the turn of the 20th century and Empires werw losing their hold: Ottoman, Prussian, Britain, Russian, France, Et Al - and in it's wake, was civil unrest.

So simply stating that WWII was started in 1919 is bullshit and out of context.

I changed the start date of WWII to 1914.

 

[Kevin J]

I changed the start date of WWII to 1914.

There really wasn't any excuse for what the Germans did under the Nazis. Maybe you'd like to ban me from all the forums permanently this time. LOL.

 

[GrauGeist]

There really wasn't any excuse for what the Germans did under the Nazis. Maybe you'd like to ban me from all the forums permanently this time. LOL.

There's no excuse to what the Japanese did under military rule, either. And the Japanese killed in the tens of millions.

In regards to the "start date" of WWII, Europe had been a powder keg waiting to go off and the Balkan war in 1912 almost triggered it, but the assination of Archduke Ferdinand two years later lit the fuse.

BUT the events leading up to WWI, reach back roughly a thousand years, when the Roman Empire fell, creating a territorial control vacuum that festered through the ages and came to a head in 1914 and was not resolved in 1918/1919 and actually made things worse when some nations were dissolved and others created.

So NO, WWII was not the result of WWI, it was a continuation of a condition that reached back millinea.

I understand that if one has an idea in their head about how things should be, it's often times difficult to show a different perspective, but this forum is about military history anf I have been studying it for half a century...so like I mentioned earlier, I'm not talking out my ass when I'm putting out a timeline on how things came about.

I am guilty of condensing things oftentimes, because I don't like writing 10,000 word dissertations

 

[Kevin J]

There's no excuse to what the Japanese did under military rule, either. And the Japanese killed in the tens of millions.

In regards to the "start date" of WWII, Europe had been a powder keg waiting to go off and the Balkan war in 1912 almost triggered it, but the assination of Archduke Ferdinand two years later lit the fuse.

BUT the events leading up to WWI, reach back roughly a thousand years, when the Roman Empire fell, creating a territorial control vacuum that festered through the ages and came to a head in 1914 and was not resolved in 1918/1919 and actually made things worse when some nations were dissolved and others created.

So NO, WWII was not the result of WWI, it was a continuation of a condition that reached back millinea.

I understand that if one has an idea in their head about how things should be, it's often times difficult to show a different perspective, but this forum is about military history anf I have been studying it for half a century...so like I mentioned earlier, I'm not talking out my ass when I'm putting out a timeline on how things came about.

I am guilty of condensing things oftentimes, because I don't like writing 10,000 word dissertations

If you wrote a 10,000 word dissertation, most would probably not read it. For me learning military history and religions are a hobby. There is a cyclic nature to history. What is noticeable to me, is that no one nation ever becomes too powerful on this planet before events conspire to destroy them. One such event WW1, the intervening years, then WW2, which spells the end of the British Empire and the rise of a new hegemon, the USA.

 

[TheMadPenguin]

Wow ... what a hornet's nest *I* kicked here.

What started The War was a confluence between the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil on the one hand, and the love of evil in the hearts of dynamic energetic men on the other.

WWII: CBI 7 July 1937
WWII: Europe 1 Sept 1939
WWII: PTO 7 Dec 1941

"If you wrote a 10,000 word dissertation, most would probably not read it. "
Perhaps for a small value of 'most'? Please don't speak for me. I'm quite experienced at speaking for myself.

 

[Kevin J]

Wow ... what a hornet's nest *I* kicked here.

What started The War was a confluence between the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil on the one hand, and the love of evil in the hearts of dynamic energetic men on the other.

WWII: CBI 7 July 1937
WWII: Europe 1 Sept 1939
WWII: PTO 7 Dec 1941

"If you wrote a 10,000 word dissertation, most would probably not read it. "
Perhaps for a small value of 'most'? Please don't speak for me. I'm quite experienced at speaking for myself.

I don't think any of the major powers were really any good. Its just that the upstarts were seriously evil.

 

[Kevin J]

Wow ... what a hornet's nest *I* kicked here.

What started The War was a confluence between the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil on the one hand, and the love of evil in the hearts of dynamic energetic men on the other.

WWII: CBI 7 July 1937
WWII: Europe 1 Sept 1939
WWII: PTO 7 Dec 1941

"If you wrote a 10,000 word dissertation, most would probably not read it. "
Perhaps for a small value of 'most'? Please don't speak for me. I'm quite experienced at speaking for myself.

The Irish war of independence and Civil War?
The Turkish War of independence?
The intervention.in Russia, 1918 to 1925?
Mandatory Iraq wars, 1919 to 1932?
ETO, The Spanish Civil War, 1937?
Africa, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, 1935?
Manchuria, 1931?
Or maybe because there was an Armistice at the end of the Great War, then we're just looking at a continuation of it. So it's a 1914 to 1945 war, the second global war on the planet. The first being the Anglo-French wars from 1756 to 1815.

 

[TheMadPenguin]

ETO, The Spanish Civil War, 1937?

No, as it wasn't between Spain and any other country. It was exploited by other countries to test/improve military stuff (me 109).

Africa, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, 1935?

Maybe. Not much of a world war, as neither Italy nor Ethiopia had much effect on other nations.

Manchuria, 1931?

Probably 1937. 1931 was a coup more than a war.

Or maybe because there was an Armistice at the end of the Great War, then we're just looking at a continuation of it. So it's a 1914 to 1945 war, the second global war on the planet. The first being the Anglo-French was from 1756 to 1815.

Not in my opinion. Many players in WWI weren't in WWII. Empires fell, and the follow-on nations had different motives/objectives.

 

[Kevin J]

No, as it wasn't between Spain and any other country. It was exploited by other countries to test/improve military stuff (me 109).
Maybe. Not much of a world war, as neither Italy nor Ethiopia had much effect on other nations.
Probably 1937. 1931 was a coup more than a war.
Not in my opinion. Many players in WWI weren't in WWII. Empires fell, and the follow-on nations had different motives/objectives.

I updated it to add the wars in mandatory Iraq an the Russian intervention. 1918 to 1937 was certainly not peaceful.

 

[Kevin J]

I updated it to add the wars in mandatory Iraq an the Russian intervention. 1918 to 1937 was certainly not peaceful.

Wars were still going on around the world from 1918 to 1939, fall out wars from the Great War, the war to end all wars.

 

[Zipper730]

This can be taken to the extremes: You can argue the first battle of the Cold War was the Spanish Civil War.

It was a proxy war against fascist and communists.

 

[Akuma]

No, as it wasn't between Spain and any other country. It was exploited by other countries to test/improve military stuff (me 109).
Maybe. Not much of a world war, as neither Italy nor Ethiopia had much effect on other nations.
Probably 1937. 1931 was a coup more than a war.
Not in my opinion. Many players in WWI weren't in WWII. Empires fell, and the follow-on nations had different motives/objectives.

I would go with the Japanese invasion of Manchukuo since that is what led to the Japanese defeat at Khalkin Gol (Northern Advance) which in turn led to the IJN Southern Advance being adopted.

 

[SaparotRob]

I kind of go with Akuma. I do wonder how the Peru Ecuador War fits in, if at all.

 

[Akuma]

I kind of go with Akuma. I do wonder how the Peru Ecuador War fits in, if at all.

Actually it was Bolivia and Paraguay going to war over the Gran Chaco. Interesting aviation history on that.

 

[Njaco]

If you read through the original thread, I did try to include what was happening in China 1939 onwards. But as everyone has pointed out, if you REALLY want find the beginning of this war or that war, try the Dawn of Man. That should settle everything.