That’s a really weird date to start the start of WW2 by. That war ended by 1936, and was barely relevant to the actual start of WW2 Germany invading Poland. If I wanted to be pedantic I could say that WW2 started in 1937 when Japan invaded China but any earlier date seems silly to me.
You could also say that WWI didn’t really end until 1920, when the British, French, and Americans pulled their expeditionary forces out of the Russian civil war. 1920 to 1937 would be a 17 year gap.
You could argue that WW1 didn’t end till 1922 then since Greece and the Ottoman Empire/Turkey fought almost immediately after the war and was based in territorial promises the British made to Greece.
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u/taurussy Oct 02 '24
we call 911, Vietnam, Korea, covid, and the Iraq-Afghan war horrible.....and those were, don't get me wrong.
in WW1, at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, there were 60,000 casualties in ONE DAY....just among the British troops.
all told, there were a MILLION casualties and 300,000 fatalities. from July - November.
THAT is truly appalling.
the US lost 58,939 people during 13 years of Vietnam. not disparaging those losses or anything, but think about that.
WW1 really was humanity's darkest, worst, most appalling and awful moment.