If you ask most Americans when World War Two started and you’ll probably get December 7, 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, as an answer.  Another response might be September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland.  These dates are significant, in that these are when open and sustained military operations commenced, but they definitely were not the start of the war.   It would be ignorant to think that Germany just up and decided to invade Poland, or Japan bomb Pearl Harbor, out of the blue on these dates.  There were prolonged periods of tension that led up to the … The post Prelude to World War – Part 1, by 3AD Scout appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.