China suffered the second greatest number of civilian and military casualties of any power involved in WW2 behind the Soviet Union. China was fighting Japan in open conflict from 1937 until 1945 so are also the only allied power who fought for the entirety of the conflict.
India mustered 2.5 million men, all volunteers making it the largest volunteer army in history and also the only military who fought in every single theatre of operations in WW2.
China kind of depends on who you ask and how you look at it. Some historians argue that if you remove a euro-centric bias, WW2 really started with the 2nd Sino-Japanese war in 1937. Or you could look further back to territorial disputes and skirmishes between Japan and China going back to 1931.
India was a British colony until 1947 and participated as part of the British Empire.
Those historians are correct. It is accepted that separate wars that started earlier merged into the greater WW2, why would the one with over 25 million casualties by some counts not? China (for a certain value of China meaning the KMT) even joined the Allies officially.
The real hot take is calling the Spanish Civil part of it. Mild spicy is the invasion of Ethiopia by Italy.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
What about india and china? Or were they still small back then?
Denjin@feddit.uk 1 month ago
China suffered the second greatest number of civilian and military casualties of any power involved in WW2 behind the Soviet Union. China was fighting Japan in open conflict from 1937 until 1945 so are also the only allied power who fought for the entirety of the conflict.
India mustered 2.5 million men, all volunteers making it the largest volunteer army in history and also the only military who fought in every single theatre of operations in WW2.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Interesting, I didn’t know that, thank you :3
Stez827@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Both were heavily involved in WW2
paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 month ago
China kind of depends on who you ask and how you look at it. Some historians argue that if you remove a euro-centric bias, WW2 really started with the 2nd Sino-Japanese war in 1937. Or you could look further back to territorial disputes and skirmishes between Japan and China going back to 1931.
India was a British colony until 1947 and participated as part of the British Empire.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
Those historians are correct. It is accepted that separate wars that started earlier merged into the greater WW2, why would the one with over 25 million casualties by some counts not? China (for a certain value of China meaning the KMT) even joined the Allies officially.
The real hot take is calling the Spanish Civil part of it. Mild spicy is the invasion of Ethiopia by Italy.
OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What was the racism part?
bstix@feddit.dk 1 month ago
They were part of WW2.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Read about the Rape of Nanking. China got pretty fucked up during ww2
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Forget about Japan being an axis power, did we?