On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 01:57:33PM +0000, Terence wrote: > If you count Japan's actions in China and Manchuria then the war started in > the > early 'thirties.
If we are to be historically accurate, WWII was a continuation of WWI as far as the West is concerned, and perhaps even of the Russo-Japanese war for Asia. > I don't know where the idea that the USA entered the war to stop the USSR > invading Western Europe came from. In December 1941 Germany was deep inside > Russia, and it took the combined Allied might of Great Britain, the USA and > the > USSR nearly four years to defeat them. Yes. Many argue that the Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of the war in Europe. Haines
