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What gives World War II its claim to have been a world war in a more complete sense than World War I is the involvement of Japan. The Japanese attack upon the US fleet at Pearl Harbour can be seen to have made a European war a world war. There are, however, a number of problems with this essentially Eurocentric perspective.
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See Saki Dockrill, ‘Introduction: One Step Forward — A Reappraisal of the “Pacific War”’, in From Pearl Harbour to Hiroshima. The Second World War in the Pacific, 1941–45, ed. Saki Dockrill (1994).
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Kosmas Tsokhas, ‘Dedominionization: the Anglo-Australian experience, 1939–1945’, The Historical Journal, vol. 37, no. 4 (1994).
See John Chapman, ‘The Imperial Japanese Navy and the north-south Dilemma’ in Barbarossa, ed. John Erikson and David Dilkes (1994).
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Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms (1994), p. 260.
Norman Stone, Hitler (1980), p. 153.
Robert Spector, ‘American Seizure of Japan’s strategic Points’ in From Pearl Harbour to Hiroshima, p. 79. See also Richard B. Frank, Guadalcanal (1990).
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Purdue, A.W. (1999). A World War?. In: The Second World War. European History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27435-2_4
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