Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Some people argue World War II didn't start in 1939, but rather 1937. Or maybe 1935? There's plenty of alternate dates for World War II.
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This was more of a discussion around common knowledge dates of events, but here are some of the more specific references:
- https://mjp.univ-perp.fr/textes/degaulle28071946.htm (De Gaulle 30 Years War)
- archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.17693/page/n5/mode/2up (Churchill's book Gathering Storm)
- civilwaronthewesternborder.org/encyclopedia/battle-black-jack (Example of Bleeding Kansas being viewed as "the start" of the American Civil War)
- en.wikisource.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_Joint_Declaration (Text of 1956 Soviet/Japanese ending of state of war)