HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Party System, Benito Mussolini, Italian Parliament
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Textbook answer is: 1939, when hitler invaded poland. An american would say december 7th, 1941; b/c that"s when japan bombed hawaii, dragging the us into the war. Ask a malaysian, or singaporean or indonesian, they"d say 1942, for that"s the year the. Japanese army overran a lot of southeast asia. Ask a chinese person, he/she would say it really began in 1931, the year that japan invaded the northeastern chinese province of manchuria. These different dates underline the fact of what we call wwii actually represents the convergence of 2 separate conflicts: originating in asia, or originating in europe . Those two conflicts, formally came together, in september 1940, when japan formed a pact with nazi germany and italy. May 7th, 1945: germany surrendered unconditionally to the allied powers. War ended in asian on the 10th of august, 1945. Japan surrendered with the bomb dropping of hiroshima and nagasaki .
