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A) This is absolutely a fringe belief, if it is believed at all. Cite a source if you think it could be true.

B) World War II started two years earlier than Pearl Harbor, when Hitler invaded Poland. The idea that FDR started WWII is the most ludicrous, revisionist idea I've ever heard about history.

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1. Good number of former navy people seem to believe it like this guy: https://www.independent.org/issues/article.asp?id=408

2. My point is it's not really a "world" war without the US. Would've probably called it something else.

1. "Former Navy people" are not historians.

2. Adding a continent to a war is not the same as starting it. That's like saying that if the US entered the war in Ukraine, then Biden started WWIII.

The person who started the war is the person who invaded a sovereign neighbor to expand his empire.

> World War II started... when Hitler invaded Poland.

The Chinese might disagree.

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