2007-05-24 15:06:40 · 7 answers · asked by jesusizback 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
September 1st 1939 when Germany under Hitler invaded Poland. Hitler's expansionist regime and his views of the superiority of the German race played a major role in the beginning of the war. Also Germany wanted revenge for world war 1.
2007-05-24 15:11:27 · answer #1 · answered by Cosby the Demon Lord 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Japan's invasion of China actually started in 1931, but the official date is September 3, 1939 when the British and French declared war on Germany for the invasion of Poland two days earlier, which followed the anschluss with Austria and the takeover of Czechoslovakia.
2007-05-24 15:15:22 · answer #2 · answered by TheOnlyBeldin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
World War 2 started in 1934 when Italy invaded Ethiopia.
2007-05-25 06:34:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest that World War II was really the second "hot" phase of the Second Thirty Years War (1914-1945), because it arose out of the unresolved issues of World War I.
2007-05-24 15:47:38 · answer #4 · answered by Theodore H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WWII in Europe started in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland.
WWII in the Pacific started in 1941 after the Pearl harbor attack by Japan.
2007-05-25 11:23:57 · answer #5 · answered by 3lixir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On June 1, 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland to claim Lebensraum ("living space").
2007-05-24 15:52:38 · answer #6 · answered by BFranklin07 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WWII started in 1939 and it started because Britain and France among other nations, aka the Allies, wanted to stop the Axis Powers from trying to control every nation on the planet
2007-05-24 15:17:48 · answer #7 · answered by arzbarz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋