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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- ↑ Churchill, Winston (1948). The Gathering Storm. The Second World War. Houghton Mifflin. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-395-41055-4. Retrieved 23 Oct 2023.
Likely said by Foch in some form, but the exact quotation is unclear. See discussion at StrangeHistory.net