Talk:World History/Causes and course of the Second World War

okay, i daredn't change this myself before being certain, as the author has clearly made a lot of effort with this piece. three things:
 * 1) mussolini's agression was not necessarily 'foolish' - in principle it could have been bold and daring - he just didn't have the calibre and quantity of troops, mechanized divisions etc.
 * 2) battle of britian and russia - hitler had always been planning agression against the soviets. The whole idea of invading france after a pact with stalin was to avoid a war on two fronts. His plan was to sweep over western europe, including britain if he had to. His long term goal was always to invade russia, he didn't 'then turn to russia' after failing to conquer britain. After all, they were idealogical enemies. He greatly respected the british (a dubious honour for us), and didn't have any huge desire to invade them - that was arguably to prove his downfall. He never turned the full might of germany's war machine against the island. God knows what would have happened had he done so.
 * 3) "The Worldwide Great Depression" was naturally worldwide - that, in my experience, has always been taken as given. Is 'worldwide' really necessary? I have always read it simply as "The Great Depression"

keep up the great work, --Mark Lewis 20:07, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Page orginization
What do most people find a more preferable way to break up sections of WWII on a page; by Theatre/Campaign or Year?

There are still many cases of cold war which can lead to III world war. The whole world is on depression. This could be the most dangerous n unforgetable war. Nitesh dhital (discuss • contribs) 11:57, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Pacific theatre has US bias - no Burma campaign
The pacific theatre headings don't seem to cover the Burma campaign at all. Although I say US bias, I believe that there was US involvment there as well. In the UK it is often called the forgotten war. --David Woolley 13:53, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

order of events
Following the conquest of the Low Countries, Hitler occupied Denmark and Norway, beginning on April 9, 1940. Thats not true. It was the other way round. --NeuerNutzer2009 (discuss • contribs) 22:12, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

European Theatre
Information was added up to the invasion plans for France.