It's War!
"This morning the British ambassador in Berlin handed the German government a final note stating that unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany." Neville Chamberlain, 1939 China had already been fighting the Japanese since 1937 but most people focus on the German invasion of Poland as the starting point of the Second World War. Germany declared war on Poland and its planes launched ground strikes flipping over the defenders in Lodz and Warsaw then its ground trooops shattered the defenders in Western Poland with no losses. The US Entry penalty for such actions turned out to be 3. The Italians moved their sub into the Red Sea. Japan moved the Tokyo militia and China from Japan and its Manchurian-based HQ towards N China. Japan launched a ...