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Originally posted by Paul Reed@Feb 13 2005, 08:16 PM
What, specifically, do you want to know or learn more about - WW2 is a very big subject, as you are learning!
By the way the line "Actual combat in World War II didn't really begin until 1935" is wrong - WW2 began in 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Some historians would of course argue the seeds of war go back further, and some events prior to 1939 are inter-connected, but for Germany the war proper did not start until then.
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I am coming increasingly round to the viewpoint that Japanese operations in China in the 1930s cannot be divorced from WWII, so in my mind the date has moved back from 1939, which I see as a very Eurocentric date.
I think the key point for a school student is that unless you are going to write a very superficial overview, then it is better to pick a much more restricted topic than the whole war and research it in more detail.