On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:11:33 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Walter Maxwell wrote:
You're saying the Brits started WWII?

It's a trick question, Walt. It technically wasn't yet
a "World War" when the Nazis invaded Poland. It wasn't
a "World War" until the Brits declared war and their
allies joined them. :-) Some would argue that it really
wasn't a "World War" until the US was attacked by Japan.
As they say, the rest is history.

No trick question, Cecil, just perception. What became WWII was
without question the Hitlerian invasion of Sudetenland.

Walter, W2DU wrote:
"What became WWII was without question the Hitlerian invasion of the
Sudetenland."

Maybe so, but it was taken without firing a shot.

I recall that on September 29, 1938, Neville Chamberlin, Adolph Hitler,
Edouard Daladier, and Benito Mussolini signed the Munich Agreement which
transferred to Germany the Sudetenland, that contained a large
German-speaking population from Czechoslovakia.

Chamberlin, caricatured in the U.S. with his umbrella and briefcase,
shared with Hitler an extreme dislike of bolsheviks. These proclivities
were demonstrated during the 1937 Spanish Civil War.

Chamberlin, the appeaser, went home from Munich declaring "Peace in Our
Time".

On September 1, 1939, nine days after signing a nonagression pact with
the Soviet Union, in the predawn darkness, Hitler attacked by land, sea,
and air, and captured by day`s end, the Polish port city of Danzig.

WW-2 officially began two days later, on September 3, 1939 when Brittain
and France declared war on Germany.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

Richard Harrison wrote:
Walter, W2DU wrote:
"What became WWII was without question the Hitlerian invasion of the
Sudetenland."

Maybe so, but it was taken without firing a shot.

I recall that on September 29, 1938, Neville Chamberlin, Adolph Hitler,
Edouard Daladier, and Benito Mussolini signed the Munich Agreement which
transferred to Germany the Sudetenland, that contained a large
German-speaking population from Czechoslovakia.

Chamberlin, caricatured in the U.S. with his umbrella and briefcase,
shared with Hitler an extreme dislike of bolsheviks. These proclivities
were demonstrated during the 1937 Spanish Civil War.

Chamberlin, the appeaser, went home from Munich declaring "Peace in Our
Time".

On September 1, 1939, nine days after signing a nonagression pact with
the Soviet Union, in the predawn darkness, Hitler attacked by land, sea,
and air, and captured by day`s end, the Polish port city of Danzig.

WW-2 officially began two days later, on September 3, 1939 when Brittain
and France declared war on Germany.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

Don't you just love people who have their facts straight?