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Originally Posted by jasonglh
Definitely. Before that we learned X happened on X date. For instance before college I knew WWII began when Pearl harbor was attacked on Dec 7, 1941. During my college course we learned about the events leading up to the attack. While he did not condone what the Japanese did he did explain why they felt the need to attack when they did.
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Now now! If you're going to pretend to an education, you've got to be a little more worldly. Yes, the US declared war against the Axis (two seperate declarations) following Pearl Harbor. However, WWII had been going on for a while before that. The US (overtly) joined the fight "fashionably late". Ask the Chinese or Koreans when the war with Japan started. I'm sure our European friends would give you an earlier start date for the war against Germany too.
Peregrino