Details about WWII are blurry, and technicalities are everywhere. For example the simple question “when did World War II start?” has multiple answers. Most would answer “In September 1939, when the Nazis invaded Poland,” but some others would say, “Well no, it actually started when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931, or at the very latest when the Japanese invaded China in 1937 because the Japanese didn’t stop fighting until 1945 after both atomic bombs were dropped.” Then again, one could also argue that it started in 1933 when Hitler took power, or 1941 when America started fighting. It’s a very complicated answer to a seemingly simple question.
Some may say that China endured the most brutal fighting, this was shown by the infamous rape of…show more content… Also, 1941 saw a day that would "live in infamy" when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, hoping that such an audacious attack would frighten the United States into staying neutral, which was a pretty stupid gamble because the U.S. was already giving massive aid to the Allies and was hardly neutral and the U.S is not known to be a pacifist or a politically neutral country .
1941 also saw Japan invading much of Southeast Asia, which made Australia and New Zealand understandably nervous. As part of the British Commonwealth, they were already involved in the war, but now they could fight the Japanese closer to home. And shut up about how I never talk about you Australians. I just gave you 1.5 sentences.
But by the time the Americans and Australians started fighting the Japanese, it was already a World War. Sometimes this meant fighting or starving or being bombed; other times, it meant production for the war - you don’t think of Argentina as being a World War II powerhouse, for instance, but they were vital to the Allies, supplying 40% of British meat during World War II. Thanks, Thought
