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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 04:20:54 JST Evan Prodromou

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   • mlinksva

   @mlinksva i like the Manchukuo invasion too, but it is not contiguous with the other fighting. Once Italy vs. Ethiopia starts, the Axis and Allied powers are constantly engaged in direct and indirect fighting until 1945. Many belligerents, many theaters.

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     mlinksva (mlinksva@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 04:20:55 JST mlinksva

     @evan I picked "Japanese Invasion of China" but slightly partial to 1931 instance as first major post-WWI invasion and end of League of Nations credibility.

     But consensus (including this poll) of German invasion of Poland is pretty reasonable as point of no return in hindsight, and when term WWII began to be used at the time.

     Tho also sympathetic to WWI never ended view. Synthesis: WWII began with the Russian Civil War (ideological component much more salient from that point on).