[dfwgator]

If you meant World War Two ... then your "start" date would be September 1939, when Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland.

There, fixed it.

[jamaksin]

Um ... a bit off on the timing.

Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. France and Great Britain, via treaty obligations, declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939 ... World War Two starts ...

USSR invades Poland ... September 17, 1939 ... so Uncle Joe "joined" in AFTER the war had started two weeks earlier.