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TIL the "Second Thirty Years' War" is a periodization scheme sometimes used to encompass the wars in Europe from 1914 to 1945. The thesis of the Second Thirty Years' War is that WWI naturally led to WWII; both Charles de Gaulle and Churchill popularized this periodization immediately after WWII

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