When was the second world war, and when did it end?
The war can be traced back to as early as the closing of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, but the long conflict of WW2 offically started when Japan annexed Manchuria and set up a puppet state around 1933, then the Japanese attacked through Manchuria into China following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937. This period of the war was known as the Sino-Japanese War before expanding into the Pacific War. In Europe, the war had been delayed multiple times due to the process of appeasement, but finally erupted on September 1 1939. The war offically ended following the unconditional surrender of Imperial Japan following the attomic bombs and the threat of Soviet occupation; although there were Japanese holdouts on various islands for decades after. Some people are really simplifying the sides of the war and leaving a large number out.
How did the Second World War start? In 1918, Germany lost World War One. It had to give up land and was banned from having armed forces. In 1933 the German people voted for a leader named Adolf Hiltler, who led a political party in Germany called the National Socialists or Nazis. Hitler promised to make his country great again and quickly began to arm Germany again and to seize land from other countries. This led to World War Two (Second World War) When did World War Two begin? World War Two in Europe began on 3rd September 1939, when the Prime Minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain, declared war on Germany. It involved many of the world’s countries. Why did the Second World War start? Germany took over Austria and Sudetenland (a region in Czechoslovakia) before the war and was soon threatening the rest of Europe too. The Second World War was started by Germany in an unprovoked attack on Poland. Britain and France declared war on Germany after Hitler had refused to abort his invasion
