Second Thirty Years War

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{{quote|When [French] Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the peace treaty of Versailles he observed with singular accuracy: "This is not peace. It is an armistice for twenty years."|Winston Churchill, 1948[a]}

The "Second Thirty Years' War" is a historiographic concept popular among Marxists which asserts that World War I and World War II were both part of one phenomenon which lasted from 1914 to 1945 that resembled, in many ways, the pan-European Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648.
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