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World History

eppur_se_muova

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3. Our old World Book Encyclopedia included a time line of events surrounding WWII, starting in the 30's ...

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Sun Jul 12, 2026, 07:14 PM

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... when the Japanese first decided to invade China, beginning with the Mukden Incident in 1931. It always bugged me that people talked as if WWII started in the earlier 40's. It's like attacks on China just didn't count.

Don't get me started on when WWI ended.

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