World War II had campaigns occurring in Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
The Empire of Japan aimed 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 with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and the United Kingdom .	Pacific	Pacific Ocean	China	Second Sino-Japanese War	Nazi Germany	Nazi Germany	Empire of Japan	Empire of Japan	Asia	Asia	at war	Second Sino-Japanese War	Republic of China	Republic of China (191249)	invasion	invasion of Poland	Poland	Soviet invasion of Poland	France	French Third Republic	United Kingdom	United Kingdom	Japan	Empire of Japan
