The Second Sino-Japanese War is arguably the real beginning of WW2. Mao Zedong leads the Chinese Communist Party to safety. Italians invade Ethiopia; Germans occupy the Rhineland and annexes Austria; civil wars take hold in Spain and China 📺 It’s like Netflix for history… Sign up to History Hit, the world’s best history documentary service… Continue reading How Japan Technically Started World War 2 | Titans Of The 20th Century | Timeline