<p><ins class="ice-ins ice-cts-1" data-changedata="" data-cid="2" data-last-change-time="1533668352900" data-time="1533668278400" data-userid="162" data-username="Author">The Empire of Japan imed to dominate Asia and the Pacific and was already at war with the Republic of China in 1937, but the world war is generally said to have begun on 1 september 1939, the day of the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and the United Kingdom.</ins></p>
